excellent political thriller and play much quieter and slow than other and high rank film in this genre . when people talk about pacino and cusack how do they manage to skip over these amazing career top performance . a story of friendship and father son relationship and corruption and deceit . the two actor gel amazingly well together and and the support from aiello and fonda be equally a impressive and although aiello be brilliant and especially when the paper run to press . instead of focussing on an over complex corruption scandal and it create wonderful character who show the human side of failure an political bribery and the final scene with each of the main character be wonderfully write and act .