The Insider is a 1999, true story, movie directed by Michael Mann that was nominated for seven academy awards. Russell Crowe's performance in this movie is absolutely fantastic and he was nominated for an academy award for his role. He would follow this role up with a best actor academy award for Gladiator. Russell Crowe plays a employee for a tobacco company who starts to leak information to the journalist Lowell Bergman, played by Al Pacino despite the fact that it was in his contract not too. Russell Crowe takes you on a wonderful ride and you really end up rooting for both Russell Crowe and Al Pacino.
Al Pacino also delivers a fantastic performance despite not being nominated. He plays a journalist who has to fight with the upper news persons at CBS because they do not want to show the story on 60 minutes that would deal a huge blow to big tobacco. What really brings these performances together is the fantastic directing by Michael Mann and the cinematography work by Dante Spinotti together they paint a beautiful picture of a thrilling story about two men. I think this is one of the best news movies to ever be filmed. I do have a bias because the movie is about my uncle Lowell Bergman who is played by Al Pacino.
It is a fantastic movie and Christopher Plummer as one of the CBS heads really rounds out the cast of a fantastic movie. It is really worth seeing and you will not be disappointed
Heat is a 1995 Michael Mann film about a bank robbery crew led by a master thief who is played by Robert De Niro and a cop, played by Al Pacino who is hot on their trail after their most recent heist. Heat also has Val Kilmer in a supporting role. Heat is a movie that I really love and it is action packed and thrilling to the very end. I think it has one of the best action shoot outs you can find in any bank robbery movie and I also think it has one of the best ends to a bank robbery/action movie out there. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are great as they go against each other. There is a fantastic scene between Al Pacino and Robert De Niro that has fantastic tension. It is a fantastic movie that I would really recommend seeing. Michael Mann puts together a great story in this movie. I am also a big fan of some of Michael Mann's other films such as Collateral and The Insider, which also stars Al Pacino.
