One of the best political/corporate thrillers

Rating: 9/10 (9 May 2005)

A brilliant, incisive, academic, fast-paced political/industrial thrillers. Michael Mann manages to show a cold, threatening world in which the courage of an opinion, the pursue of truth can change a man's life for the worst, and the lives of those who interact with him.
The plot is solid and takes you back to state-of-the-art thrillers such as John Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian Candidate" or Alan Pakula's "All the President's Men".
Added to that, the impeccable performances of Russell Crowe and Al Pacino (actually, perfect cast all along). Mann takes out the best of actors and lifts them to the excellence of acting. The photography is as beautifully somber and mysterious as in "Heat" and music score takes the movie to even higher levels of drama and suspense.