Artist The Insider
Michael Mann’s The Insider is a long, slow, meditative look at the way truth is sacrificed in the name of business, and it's a better movie for possessing those qualities. Mann’s odd, stylized distance finds the perfect vehicle in the true story of the tumultuous relationship between a 60 Minutes producer (Al Pacino) and a former tobacco-company scientist (Russell Crowe) with potentially damaging confidential information. In the world of his film, Big Tobacco looms as an absolute evil—corporate greed boiled down to its naked, destructive essence—but how his characters respond to that evil is what matters.
Updated 10/28/2009
