When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.… Expand
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80%
Andres Gomez
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Created:10/25/2013
Updated:6/23/2021
Good movie, great cast and interesting plot.
A movies as they used to be when interesting thrillers were on the screens with higher frequency.… Expand
60%
Peter McGinn
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Created:7/25/2021
Updated:7/25/2021
This movie follows a familiar subset of the thriller genre, that of the journalist investigating a story and discovering there is more involved than what meets the eye, and before he knows it there is evidence of a conspiracy stretching high into government. How high? Well, that of course varies from one conspiracy movie to the next.
I couldn’t help but notice that one of the methods of death early on here was later borrowed by the series House of Cards (U.S. version). But there are only so many ways of making possible murders look like accidents or suicides, so perhaps it was coincidental. The acting and the writing were fine, however familiar the story seemed. It just felt like it wouldn’t have taken much originality to alter the plot to separate it from all the other journalistic investigations of government corruption.… Expand
Andell EntertainmentUnited States of America
Working Title FilmsUnited Kingdom
StudioCanalFrance
Relativity MediaUnited States of America
