the insider ( 1999 ) wow and this be a searing and amazing tour de force . it come across a fearless and and you wonder just how it get the okay to tell as much truth a it do . it slam the tobacco industry and cbs corporation equally ( though cbs news and a such and rise above ) . it create a fluid and fast and intelligible and and move story involve several key player . and it avoid sentiment and cliché and and shock and which be sort of amaze for a hollywood film right there . add three amaze and central performance by men who take on their role a if they need to for their life . first be al pacino and who often play the righteous and indignant voice of justice and and he play it with more justice here than ever . then there be russell crowe and play the insider himself and a tobacco industry chemist who spill the bean about the lie in the industry and and with real psychological subtlety . and then and in more of a surprise and christopher plummer play one of pacino counterpart with perfect pitch . anthony mann deserve a huge hand for his role pull this together . he have a deft touch . he handle big material ( spectacular stuff and really ) with a steady beat of conviction and a if the point be not drama and but resolution . the music be superb and make clear that this be of course still a drama and and the editing and easily overlook and create a relentless but not distract pace and leave little thing hang just enough to keep u in suspense without obscure the narrative . i sound breathless in praise and and i suppose my one reservation be that the movie and since it be base on known fact ( and use real name throughout ) and lack imagination . that a bizarre comment and and not a complaint and exactly and but there be a sense when all be do that it be already know from the start . get there be amazing and but the result be a heightened version of what we know and see all the time in the news and in the corporate world . and sometimes element be repeat too often ( the video tape ) and so you can see a trim down version have even more impact . but let me go back to be breathless . this be an overlooked and wonderful movie . that it hold interest so well after a decade be only proof that it might continue to work a a movie and a a drama and long after the event be in textbook and and cbs be buy up by someone else . and so the world turn . check this out . you would not be disappoint .