It all depends on your point of view.

Rating: Null/10 (26 March 2000)

I never saw this film when it was released. Not until just this very night (03/25/2000), actually. I knew that Stone would inject his personal politics into it. He always does, which is why most of his storylines get a little tedious. True to form, he rarely passes up a chance to take a shot at his enemies, real or imagined, whenever he can.
But the thing I found most interesting about this 1991 film was how our hero, Mr Garrison, was forced to deal with every obstruction the White House and other gov't agencies could throw at him. He was slandered by the establishment press, was harrassed by the IRS, and was forced to deal with a coordinated campaign, engineered by the Administration and the Justice Dept, to hinder his investigation and discredit him at every turn.

Given the recent misadventures of a different prosecuting attorney and another administration, one can't help but notice the parallels. As Mr Garrison would say (very loosely paraphrased), "We are now on the other side of the looking glass. From now on, black is white, and right is wrong."

I, for one, would be curious to know how much screen time Mr. Stone would invest on this aspect of the story if he were making the film today. It really does depends on what side of the glass you are on.