Great Film, would have been a classic if half an hour shorter

Rating: 9/10 (8 November 2000)

The film is very good. It's been said before but its closest rival is all the president's men. The reason that president's is a classic is that it is more tightly edited. Half an hour of screen time isn't needed. If i were Mann I'd re-edit, minus at least 25 minutes, release it as a director's cut (against the general trend of such things to be longer) and it would be an almost flawless piece