Cheesy way to wrap up loose ends.

Rating: Null/10 (23 April 2000)

I felt this movie was worthwhile until the very end. The wrapping up of the loose ends with written explanations ruined the whole movie for me. It's obvious that they didn't want to the movie to run too long by actually depicting the scenes wherein the referred to "investigation" reveals the National Security Advisor's duplicity being uncovered. I would have preferred to have seen it rather than to read about it. It would have taken another fifteen minutes, tops. Besides, I like longer movies as long as they are entertaining. I can't help but think director Friedkin caved in to studio demands to keep the movie around two hours.