A cool, intelligent film, well told.

Rating: 9/10 (23 October 2001)

This is a cool movie, with a fascinating style. Unlike in his gangster films, Al Pacino here doesn't once fire a pistol; his cell phone and the sword of truth are his weapons this time. But his passion is just as real.

Michael Mann follows Pacino's character, Lowell Bergmann, from a view inside a world that is constantly swirling, with other characters who are constantly approaching, then receding away. And so it is that the enigmatic whistle blower, played by Russell Crowe, remains an enigma, and the truth itself remains more slippery than solid.
Cool movie. Worth seeing.