Product: The Insider [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 5.0
1999's best film, excellent script, acting, and thrills
I first saw this film early September this year. I was blown away. Tied with "Batman", this is, without any doubts at all, the most well-made thriller I've ever seen.The thing I liked most about this film was the script. Very carefully made, it must have been revisied 5 times before filming began. It could possibly be the best script made in the 90s. They didn't make the dialouge flaw in anyway, you should hear the horrible dialouge they used in the (much) more worst written films, take "Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie", with the most worst quote known to man: "Those are just ordinary cars! No, those are extrodinary cars!" In "The Insider", they give you more detailed sentinces. They won't have someone point to something and say "This tobacco isn't safe! Don't tell the public it either!" "No, it is safe!", they'd say, "Is Wingad telling the truth? Yes. Is tobacco now dangerous? Yes. Are we gonna air it? Of course not!"The acting is brilliant. OK, I'm biased over Al Pachino and Russell Crowe as great actors, but this is telling the truth. It is the second biggest sucessful prioity to this flick.The camera gets a little shaky at times, but that doesn't ruin the film at all, and I usually am driven insane by hand-held cameras.It's a thriller, yes, also a drama, but more a thriller. The only reason why it's a drama, pretty much, is because it is based on a true story. Otherwise, it is an edge-of-your-seat thriller.The only reason it got an R rating is because of strong language, and that is kind of common with R rated films. Though Amazon isn't selling it to people under 18, I found it pretty apporpriate for someone 14 or 15 years old, and maybe even people younger than that, after all, kids are familar with strong language in real life and in PG and PG-13 films, so if you're under, say 14, you can watch it with parental guidance.Rating: *****/*****