Is it newsworthy? Maybe it was really news to us.

Rating: 7/10 (6 November 1999)

Cigarettes are bad for you. Tobacco companies are evil. So what else is new?
Don't we all know this? The big revelation about this movie is that big
corporations hide behind their money and our legal system to do whatever they please. Something everybody already knew as well. Is the media controlled by
corporate interests? Just see TV programming, tailored to every advertiser's
needs.
That's why probably when this story really happened few people cared. It took Hollywood to spice it up a bit, and making it interesting. Great job by Michael Mann. Pacino and Crowe terrific as martyrs trying to expose a truth so obvious to us. An epic as Mann's former movie Heat, but in different ways. The best
thing about Insider, is that it makes you stop and think, what you already
know, but never analyzed so closely. Educative and intriguing.