An average movie

When I first heard of this movie, I thought it sounded really amazing. As a result, I was really eager to check it out and I had some rather high expectations towards the damned thing. Well, to be honest, I thought the whole thing turned out to be actually rather disappointing. I mean, sure, it was entertaining enough but the story was nothing really original. Basically, it was your typical conspiracy based thriller but there was still some good stuff. First of all, I thought it was well done. Indeed, I liked the way it was directed and it was rather well written, especially the newspaper work which seemed very realistic and exciting (it reminded me of ‘All the president's men’, by far the best movie in this genre). Then, the cast was very good and they all gave some solid good performances. Two things bothered me though. One small thing was that Robin Wright had a very thankless role. To make things worse, her romance with Russell Crowe was rather unnecessary and it didn't add much to the story. The other major thing that really bothered me and actually pretty much ruined the movie was the end. I won't spoil it but there was this very lame twist at the end and even though it was supposed to be clever, it was really annoying and it actually shattered the whole story. Anyway, to conclude, even though it never really fulfilled its great potential, I guess this movie is still worth a look, especially if you like the genre.