アル・パチーノ、ラッセル・クロウ共演の社会派ドラマ。実話を基に、ある大企業の隠蔽工作を告発する人間たちの葛藤を描く。報道局員役のパチーノと、告発者となるクロウの演技合戦が見もの。マイケル・マン監督。人気報道番組のプロデューサー、バーグマンのもとに匿名の書類が届けられる。それは、あるタバコメーカーの極秘ファイルだった。彼はその書類の意味を探るうち、ワイガンドという人物に行き当たるが・・・。
AIが作品の魅力を深く読み解いています
製作費: $90,000,000 (135億円)
興行収入: $60,300,000 (90億円)
推定収支: $-29,700,000 (-45億円)
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監督: マイケル・マン
脚本: エリック・ロス / マイケル・マン / マリー・ブレナー
音楽: Pieter Bourke / Lisa Gerrard
制作: ピートル・ヤン・ブルッヘ / マイケル・マン
撮影監督: ダンテ・スピノッティ
制作会社: Touchstone Pictures / Mann/Roth Productions / Forward Pass
What if Michael Mann, Russell Crowe and Al Pacino ensemble in a film all together? Well, The Insider, with the above clever formula does exist and it is definitely an earthly paradise. Russell Crowe is a tobacco industry researcher named Jeffrey Wigand who accidentally revealed a addictive substance abuse in a famous tobacco company named Big Tobacco. He appeared in a CBS program “60 Minutes” based on an invitation by its presenter, Mike Wallace. His fate changed drastically, he had no choice but to sacrifice his reputation, job and family. In contrast to his heroic role in Gladiator, Crowe here plays excellently as a hero who tries to fight for his freedom as it is taken away when he has to deal with corporate criminals. Al Pacino performs well as usual in his role as an investigating journalist named Lowell Bergman. Mann attractively packed this 2,5 hour long crime drama with a variety of careful analysis so that this film is away from boring.
I was drooling when I saw the first preview. the talent involved in this...aaaaahhhhhhh. You just know it's going to be good. And Crowe, who thinks he's the best actor who ever lived actually acted in this. Seeing him actually act is worth it. Many of us believed it was only a legend, but here it is, proof he does have talent somewhere beneath the brass. Pacino, Mann, Plummer, Gabon and you turn around and low and behold Gershon is doing a good job too. It's like a dream cast with a B-Team that rises up to the challenge. I'd give it a 10 if...wait, I can 10 of 10 just because it is a privilege to watch everyone in this film...who cares about the plot even? It could have been the worst story ever written and the cast and director would have saved it. It was like they were doing Richard III. that quality of awesome.
