"Russell Crowe's best performance"

Rating: 9/10 (12 August 2004)

What does an actor need to do to impress an audience, an actor needs to make you cry, make you angry, and especially scared. Russell Crowe(Gladiator) has done all of those things in "The Insider." In "A Beautiful Mind", he shows the obvious sadness, he cries, weeps, and screams, but in "The Insider" he tries to stay strong while showing his sadness threw the not so obvious ways. Like sitting down in a chair, but good old Michael Mann will show you that he's going mad in some way. Mann shows a scene where he's looking at his children, but his children are not there, he's really looking at a wall.
Crowe's Oscar winning performance(Gladiator) is not nearly as good his performance in this film, or even "A Beautiful Mind", but he brought back the sandle movie saga, and redefined what a Gladiator really is. He is one of the greatest actors of our time, he deserves to be compared to the all time greats, like Marlon Brando, and Richard Burton, and he needs to be compared to the elites, Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, Robert De niro, Al Pacino, and Tom Hanks.
This film is incredible, and I give it ****(out of 4 stars).