An intriguing, though somewhat slow drama.

Rating: Null/10 (13 November 1999)

A man, who used to be a leader in the health care industry, takes a job at a cigarette company as a researcher. You can tell he doesn't like what he is doing, but the money is good, so he stays. Then he's fired. What's the first thing he does? Goes off and tells everybody that there are bad things in the chemicals. At first he is reluctant (the first 45 minutes of the film, which should have been shaved off), but then comes around. The storyline, I thought, was fascinating, and the acting was almost Oscar-worthy. I would have given this movie a 9/10 instead of an 8/10 if it had only been about a half hour shorter. There was just too much repetition in the beginning. Towards the end it was very intense and compelling, but the beginning was so slow that the people I went to see the movie with decided they would rather play a video game and get popcorn. But they have horrible taste in film, so what does that matter?