Product: The Insider [VHS] (1999)
Rating: 5.0
great film
I truly think this is a great film. I don't say that often. Sitting down and watching and feeling this movie is an experience.I should have known Michael Mann directed. I was a great fan of Miami Vice many moons ago, and didn't realize until halfway through the Insider that Mann was responsible. But it made sense -- the music plays such a crucial role. Mann succeeds at creating a psychological, mood film that is quite riveting to me. I really don't want to get long-winded about all the wonderful, wonderful scenes (hotel room, golf range, CBS offices, outside Wigand's house at night, the long parade of cars going to the deposition, Wigand's return from the deposition, on and on...).I think this movie is perfect from beginning to end. Pacino's hair-raising speech, "are we newsmen or businessmen?" is priceless and Russell Crowe, is, as I've come to see after watching many of his films now, an absolutely brilliant actor. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!Sit down, get quiet, and watch this movie -- really watch it. Take the time to enjoy a visual and auditory feast.