One Legend and one up and coming actor come together.

Rating: 8/10 (9 January 2001)

Russell Crowe is fast gaining a great reputation as one of the top hollywood actors and his performance in THE INSIDER does nothing to dispell this. Al Pacino stars as a producer on CBS's 60 Minutes who tries to get a top executive who has just been fired from a tobbaco company to come clean on their dirty tricks which get the public hooked on the nicotene in tobbaco. Pacino , for the first time, comes up against his own bosses who are frightened about losing billions through litigation from the tobbaco company. This film is 2 and a half hours long and not for one minute did i get bored , it is totaly inthralling and more than anything it is an insight into what can and has gone on in the news reporting business.On the cover of the DVD it says"The Insider will thrill you with its unbelivable twists and turns". i'm not sure what they are talking about there because this is hardly the sixth sense but The Insider is still a great movie. 8 out of 10.