Fit for Academy Award

Rating: 10/10 (26 February 2000)

Michael Mann does always great film each 4/5 years,so I 'll have only to see again(if all'll doing well) 7 or 8 and I'm very very disappointed! After HEAT I was thinking that the next MANN's work could be very different,because I think that movie was unrepeatable and an end of a restart. In fact,THE INSIDER is very different than Heat and go beyond,the tobacco story in only a pretext,this is a film over the courage about responsibility of our actions.A great screenplay a great story! Russel Crowe show us how is hard do be coherent and honest in life.Al Pacino makes again a great work,and I'm thinking why have no Nomination?Maybe bacause he have no more space on shelves at home? About Mann styles,the music is used in a perfect way.Almost obsessive is SACRIFICE.Like HEAT's score there were using 2 tracks ARMENIA and IN NOVEMBER both too great for be forget. On Remind's Children scene a music is mixed with MELTDOWN and give a great emotion and that is what I call Mann's Movie! The SPINOTTI's cinematograpy is amazing,but very different then HEAT,very particular the Mountain scene. But I give me a reserve to the Italian Copy of that movie,I'll have to see on ntsc DVD or LD for make a right idea. Last is the strange way to shooting this movie,I saw often anything like a weak quivering,like a real Documentary. Why I love that movie?Simply because is a Mann's film and I have not used 20 years for understand that guy is a genius.