Intense

Rating: Null/10 (20 August 2006)

This film is about a university professor from a prominent academic family being caught up in a quiz show fraud.
Right from the beginning, the audience was told that the quiz show was a fraud by the TV executives discussing how the quiz show winner was not the 'right guy' the sell the product that the show was endorsing. Then by chance, a university professor (Ralph Fiennes) came along and became the replacement. Ralph Fiennes did a good job as a calm, all rounded intellect. He was convincing and charming, confident without being cocky. The supporting cast was also good, especially the way John Turturro played the emotional ex winner who wanted to get back at the TV executives for fixing his defeat.
This film was intense despite not having an obvious climax. It kept me being interested in how the story would unfold. I did not feel that the film was too long despite it being two hours in length.