there be just no way that a movie about 60 minute should be 3 hour long and yet michael mann find a way to drag this out and much like he do in heat . yet despite the fact that the movie move with the speed of a three toed sloth on a nyquil bender and the performance be absolutely hypnotic . pacino and who be usually either great or cartoonish and delivers an adequate performance and but an unrecognizeable russell crowe be simply phenomenal . but the most spellbinding character belongs to christopher plummer and who steal every scene he in with an astound take on mike wallace . this isn not a bad movie by any mean and but it an actor movie while the performance really redeem what be otherwise an overlong exercise in directorial self indulgence .