Kill the Messenger (2014)
Genre: Biography / Crime
Duration: 112 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Michael Cuesta
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Michael Sheen and Mary Elizabeth Winstead
IMDb score:
6,9 (50.111)
Releasedate: 9 October 2014
Kill the Messenger plot
"Can you keep a national secret?"
Kill the Messenger tells the true story of a journalist, Gary Webb (Jeremy Renner), who opens up about the role of the CIA in arming rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. He then becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that leads him to despair...
Actors and actresses
Gary Webb
Anna Simons
Fred Weil
John Cullen
Ronny Quail
Norwin Meneses
Coral Baca
Ricky Ross
Sue Webb
Alan Fenster
Reviews & comments
Movsin
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A little too superficial, but still astonishing, this story about activities of a government security service that were not considered possible.
Film also tells the story of how news reporting - even if it corresponds to the truth - is not always based on conclusive evidence and ultimately how unimportant humans are when it comes to politics and power.
Definitely interesting and also exciting, although the film weakens a bit towards the end.
Jeremy Renner puts in a good acting performance.
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mrklm
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Peter Landesman's screenplay is a bit too much, which is why the second half of this biographical journalistic drama is very unbalanced. That's a shame, because Jenner likes Gary Webb, the journalist who revealed that the CIA was collaborating with drug criminals to influence the political situation in Nicaragua. The road to the reveal is intriguing, but Cuesta would have done better to focus fully on the personal implications of this revelation for Webb and his family and describe the political implications in an epilogue. By throwing everything in one heap, the second half hardly comes out of the paint.
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blurp194
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- 5543 messages
- 4226 votes
Land of the fake, home of the corrupt.
But not exactly a good movie. Renner does his best, and the rest of the cast is pretty good too - even the ones I aptly described above as B-movie alerts. But the tension is not right, from publication the plot falls dead and I was really waiting for the titles. Then three quarters of an hour is quite long, and nothing in the cinematography or in the soundtrack to keep it interesting even in the distance.
Another disturbing story about the American government. Just indecent. Or you have to believe the official reading of the CIA, but hey, that seems really against it. And that poor Webb shot himself twice in the head? that does sound a bit like he was 'helped' with that.
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