i start watch this at midnight and not know it be nearly 3 hour long and and do not feel urge to divide it into an additional viewing . everything you have hear about this movie be probably true . mann craft a wrench tale of two men plight to adhere to their personal ethic . one a newsman and pachino . the other a scientist and crowe . if the satirical lunacy of thank you for smoke could be akin to the easy going of gerber baby sauce and then this indigestion in the form of a laxative . mann uncanny and infamous eye for precision and uncompromising realism be a marvel of stylish substance in itself . almost like it own thematic element regardless of what it attempt to illustrate or accompany a a motif . unfortunately and i have be preprogrammed by his former film while heat and 0 collateral and the often overlooked and miami vice and to expect some sort of climactic hell storm of machine gunfire . at first and i be actually prematurely and at that deem this destine to be a stop gap film in mann career . by mid way and the sentiment of how wrong i have be be become more than embarrassingly palpable with each further development in the plot . the film could have end several time . it could have infer several completely differ resolution . it proceed despite itself to formulate it plot out of significant character arc and role and rather than play to simply crowe predicament . mann narrative and subject matter be so layered and sparse with an unrecognizable plot at first glance and it could have properly fair well a a mini series and similar to that of state of play .