Brilliantly filmed and acted

Rating: 10/10 (13 November 2000)

This film was breathtaking. Michael Mann is responsible for my favorite movie of all time, "Heat", and there are some similarities in the "poetic visual language" that he has mastered fully.
The performances are amazing, both Crowe and Pacino are immersed in their characters and make them so real and alive that one hardly thinks of them as actors in a movie.
But what really makes this film excellent is the filming. It is beautiful, alive and vibrant. The images convey the sadness, fear, frustration and anger that the leads are experiencing. Fantastic. I can't wait for Mann's next masterpiece.
By the way, the music one hears when Wigand discovers the agents in and around the house (that later reveals themselves as his bodyguards), and rushes towards his house is music from "Heat". In that movie, it is played when Shiherlis (Kilmer) drives away from his wife, presumably forever.