Excellent acting by main charaters

Rating: 8/10 (20 November 1999)

The Insider is a powerful movie about the corporate strong-arming of big tobacco and CBS News to prevent a sixty minutes journalist, played by Al Pacino, and a tobacco whistle-blower from taking their story to press. The three lead actors, Al Pacino as Lowell Bergman, Russel Crow as Jeffrey Wigand, and Christopher Plummer as Mike Wallace all gave splendid performances which were astoundingly moving. Although the acting of Diane Venore and some of the other smaller role actors left something to be desired, the movie itself was a splendid piece of work which was certainly one of the year's best.