Worth watching - hard to fault

Rating: 8/10 (20 December 2004)

Hey this movie is 5 years old already?? How did I pass it by so many times at the video store until now? Both DeNiro & Crowe do an outstanding job in their portrayal of real-life characters involved in bringing to air one of the most damning-to-the-tobacco-industry press interviews ever.
At times a little drawn-out, but even so the long-ish running time (2 1/2hrs) was not uncomfortable. We are kept interested the entire way - this is a story about the ultimate human sacrifice - do you fight for what you believe in even if it means you could lose your job, your house, your family, and possibly even your life? And at what point do you say "enough is enough, I give up, it's NOT worth it"?
While you have to remember that this is a dramatization, you simply can't shake the fact that the majority of events that you see likely *actually happened* more or less as portrayed. A good movie, a great story. 8/10