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Mad City review
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A really underrated movie

To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick and I should definitely re-watch it at some point to make up my mind for good about the damned thing. I have noticed that this movie is quite obscure and, even though it didn’t get much love when it was released but, for some reasons, I liked it a lot. It is not one of the most famous movies starring Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta (I know, the guy makes a lot of crap but if you look carefully, he did some great movies besides ‘Pulp Fiction’) but I think it actually deserves much more credit. I wonder if it was the first movie directed by Costa-Gavras that I saw but it was definitely one of the first and I really loved how politically engaged this guy was and still is. Of course, if you compare this flick to ‘Z’, his masterpiece, it was not really up to that level but I still think it was a very interesting movie about the power of the media and how they can  manipulate the news to make it more entertaining. To conclude, even though this movie is rather obscure and even though it has a rather lousy reputation,  I thought it was actually really good and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre. 



8/10
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Added by johanlefourbe
13 years ago on 20 August 2010 08:33