They Don't Get Any Better Than This

Rating: 10/10 (3 October 1998)

An on-film miracle is the only words to describe this masterpiece of a movie. Peter Weir's dark insight into the world of television is more powerful than those classic films "Network" and "Broadcast News", in that it uses an imaginary, but starkly realistic story to show how people bring what they see on t.v. into their lives, overcoming their own personal lives. Jim Carrey does his best and succeeds in a great but non Oscar-worthy performance. But Ed Harris is the real star here, his role which contains only several minutes of screen-time represents the evil face of the media. His powerful performance really deserves at least an Oscar nomination, along with the overly underrated Peter Weir who has made four of the most original films of alltime now.