Don't worry : you can safely watch this movie as it won't absolutely addict you (rental)

Rating: 1/10 (30 March 2014)

As a hardcore Pacino's fan, i had always highly reservations about this movie as watching two guys phone-talking for two hours isn't my vision of filmmaking. I do all i could do to not see it but today is the day : At the end and to resume, for a 150 minutes movie, i think i pushed « forward » for about 90 minutes. However, for historians, this flick has the value of benchmarking the start of the garbage era for Hollywood ! It has all the indigestible ingredients that i watch for about fifteen years now: color grading using only teal and orange ; story shortened to mobile conversations (« Star Trek » was intelligent to use that only for beaming up, Scotty !); product placements (pay attention to « rice ») ; reconstructed truth just for the sake of drama ; familial values going in the sink (the house is more important than the wedding vow) ; Oscars going crazy (7 nominations for that ?) ;
Al is convincing as an upright, true journalist, Plummer, Chambon and the kid from « Beautiful » were good but Crowe is just awful with his boring interpretation of this torn man !
Beyond this, the movie misses really the point and take its audience for small brains: i'm not a scientist, but with millions of smokers who can't stop the habit, i think people has already deduced that cigarettes were addictive ! The only interesting case here is the fact that medias have merged with politics in selling their souls to corporation : The latter tell democracy and do oligarchy, the former investigate truth and publish lies. If i got it right, the « seven dwarfs » having drugged the citizens, they could easily extort colossal money that they use to buy anyone that could be a nuisance against them ! It's a shame that the movie has hired Mann to cloud the issue with a sluggish narration. Did Oliver Stone wasn't available ?