State of Play (2009)
Country: US/GB/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 127m
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Jeff Daniels, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Jason Bateman
Synopsis:
A Congressman gets into hot water over an affair with his researcher when she is killed in a freak accident, and his old buddy on the Washington Globe turns up a link between their investigation into a security company and another recent homicide.
Review:
The conspiracy aspect of this engaging political thriller is plain enough from the get-go; add in some fashionable eleventh-hour reversing of assumptions and you have in one sense a pretty conventional piece. What distinguishes it a little, however, is Crowe's performance as a shaggy reporter, who is allowed for the most part to speak intelligent lines and not screw up, and the fact that it eschews car chases and gunfights in favour of suspense.
Country: US/GB/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 127m
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Jeff Daniels, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Jason Bateman
Synopsis:
A Congressman gets into hot water over an affair with his researcher when she is killed in a freak accident, and his old buddy on the Washington Globe turns up a link between their investigation into a security company and another recent homicide.
Review:
The conspiracy aspect of this engaging political thriller is plain enough from the get-go; add in some fashionable eleventh-hour reversing of assumptions and you have in one sense a pretty conventional piece. What distinguishes it a little, however, is Crowe's performance as a shaggy reporter, who is allowed for the most part to speak intelligent lines and not screw up, and the fact that it eschews car chases and gunfights in favour of suspense.
Country: US/GB/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 127m
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Jeff Daniels, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Jason Bateman
Synopsis:
A Congressman gets into hot water over an affair with his researcher when she is killed in a freak accident, and his old buddy on the Washington Globe turns up a link between their investigation into a security company and another recent homicide.
Review:
The conspiracy aspect of this engaging political thriller is plain enough from the get-go; add in some fashionable eleventh-hour reversing of assumptions and you have in one sense a pretty conventional piece. What distinguishes it a little, however, is Crowe's performance as a shaggy reporter, who is allowed for the most part to speak intelligent lines and not screw up, and the fact that it eschews car chases and gunfights in favour of suspense.