a huge disappointment!

Rating: Null/10 (1 May 2000)

This movie had high expectations written all over it ... a good cast, including a promising younger actor (Crowe), director Michael Mann, and a bunch of Academy Award nominations. What it delivered was a tedious, preachy, for the most part very boring and predictable film. This film could easily have been told in one and a half hours rather than the two and a half it clocked in at. There were so many unnecessary, pointless and unresolved sub-plots, mostly involving other stories at '60 Minutes', that the film sometimes seemed unbearably confusing. I know they were thrown in to prove to the audience just how hard working and busy a '60 Minutes' producer is, but the end result was that it slowed the pace of the movie interminably and ended up really annoying me. Why unnecessarily bog down your movie with unresolved detail? All in all, I feel that I wasted my 5 bucks at Blockbuster.