i have be long await this movie ever since i saw the trailer and which make it look like a political drama and star three of my favorite actor while al pacino and john cusack and and bridget fonda . and even though it be direct by harold becker and who have do uneven work and he and pacino do combine on sea of love and which rank among each of their best work . but interference on some level ( for starter and several of the scene in the original trailer do not appear in the movie ) and change of tone ( subsequent trailer make it look like a thriller ) make this and while watchable and nowhere near a it could have be . which be too bad and because i really want to like this movie . there be great potential here to be a film about how government can still be worthwhile despite all the corruption and and to make a complex statement about that corruption and not the usual good guy vs. bad guy . and there be good act here . pacino and cusack be both very good and and danny aiello give one of the best performance of his career . but fonda be waste in her role and have nothing to do and and while there be merit in the central storyline and when it turn to a thriller and the movie lose it way and briefly recovers in the final scene between cusack and pacino and and then fall down completely in the end . i wish i could like this more and but no .