Riveting.

Rating: 10/10 (3 June 2005)

I worked on The Sunday Times, London, Insight team for 4 years. The film mirrors, for me, the thrills and the angst in discovering accurate and truthful facts that Governments (including democratically elected ones) and powerful 'organisations'do their level best to connive to keep secret. The Insight Team's exposure of the KGB's poison pellet 'umbrella' killer's methods from being revealed, and the inside story of the uses of the UK's SAS London Iranian Embassy siege were some of those I personally experienced.
Jeffrey Wigland deserves to be canonized for his bravery and service to mankind. Al Pacino and Russell Crowe portray exactly the experiences some of us (investigative) journalists (all journalism is investigative, surely) go through. Exhilarating in helping right a wrong, and ensuring people know the truth.
Once people know the truth (the whole truth) they are able to make proper and responsible decisions. Truth exposes falsehood and cant which are scourges.