Better than American Beauty!!!

Rating: 9/10 (1 February 2000)

Over the past wekend, I decided to indulge myself in a movie marathon. IThe two movies which I had been eager to see were American Beauty and The Insider. After sitting through the unmerciful mess that was American Beauty, I wandered half dazed into the theatre across the ahll, thinking "this movie cannot be any better". How wrong I was. I was jolted from my seat for the whole 3 hours, mesmerised and dazzled by the best picture of the year. The dialogue crackled, the scenes wrenched my heart to the core and chemistry between Pacino, Plummer and Crowe delighted me to the very end. What could have been a very simple and mundane tale about a "whistle-blower", turned out to be the best 3 hours I have ever spent in a theatre. If I had a say in the best movie of the year it would not be American Beauty, not by a long shot. It would be The Insider.