The Insider
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Movie Reviews of The Insider
Movie Review: Truth to power
Summary: 4 Stars
This film is a gutsy portrayal of the lengths the cigarette manufacturing industry would go to, to profit from their deathserving product. Russell Crowe brilliantly portrays the "insider", the "whistle blower", who publicly has the courage to state how the industry is serving up death
surreptitiously to a naive American public,despite threats against his and his family's life by the cigarette company he had worked for. Al Pacino brilliantly portrays the representative of CBS's 60 Minutes, who
offers the vehicle through which the "insider" can speak to the American public.
Movie Review: The Future Revealed
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a dark movie about a tobacco scientist who wants to come clean, a TV producer that wants his story and all the obstacles they face: tobacco companies who seem undeterred by ethics and by a network that is intimidated by the power of big tobacco. In the end, the story comes out but not until the resolves of the producer and scientist are tested.
After watching this movie I was startled by my thoughts about the future of the press. If they had this much trouble exposing the lies the tobacco industry told how will they resist the armada of industry arrayed against global warming?
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Movie Review: Intellectual Thriller Appreciated
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Insider" starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino is a rare intellectual thriller based on real-life events from the 1990's. You kept expecting the shooting and car chases to begin, but the story kept to pressure bearing down from all sides on the insider (a corporate whistleblower). Both Pacino as the TV journalist and Crowe as the whistleblower give good, understated performances. The production, directed by Miami Vice veteran Michael Mann, is stylized, but seems to fit the non-physical story well. Start this one on an off-day or early in the evening, as it's over 2 1/2 hours long.Movie Review: Compromise Truth, and we will Fall.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent movie. Great acting and great cast for a great point------compromise the truth, and the ball of lies just keeps rolling. This is essentially a true story. Al Pacino's character who was a real producer fighting for the truth at '60 minutes', says at the end of the movie: what has been broken here can never be fixed--------and so it goes with all the major institutions of this current world we live in. You want to know in an overall sense what is wrong in our time, watch this movie! It is truely an 'essential' movie. The only thing Al Pacino's character can do at the end is quit. And what about our true hero, the 'insider', played by Russell Crowe? Any viewer must honestly ask themselves now, in 2006, is it really possible to be a hero given the tidal wave that stands against honesty today. I am an optimist by nature. But like Pacino's character at the end of this landmark film, I have seen the light and the emperor has no clothes!!!! Don't miss this film. Movie Review: A well-crafted high-tension thriller that drags in places
Summary: 4 Stars
I really enjoyed this movie, despite its exaggerations and melodramatic touches. Pacino and Crowe give fine performances, and the glimpse we get into the world of big tobacco companies and highly-paid journalists is fascinating. Unfortunately, there are numerous slow patches throughout this 2.5 hour movie. They could have cut about 20 minutes without losing anything important, and the result would have been more watchable. With that qualifier, I'd recommend "The Insider" to anyone who enjoys dramatic pseudo-documentary movies.