Kill the Messenger - Movie Review
Director: Michael Cuesta
Genre: Drama
Release date: October 10, 2014
Run Time: 113
minutes
Cast:
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Anna Simons,
- Andy GarcĂa as Norwin Meneses,
- Oliver Platt as Jerry Ceppos,
- Michael Sheen as Fred Weil,
- Jeremy Renner as Gary Webb,
- Rosemarie DeWitt as Susan Webb,
- Ray Liotta as John Cullen,
- Robert Patrick as Ronny Quail,
- Michael K. Williams as Freeway,
- Jena Sims as Little Hottie,
- Joshua Close as Rich Kline
- Yul Vazquez as Danilo Blandon,
- Robert Pralgo as Sheriff Nelson,
- Lucas Hedges as Ian Webb,
- Michael Rose as Jonathan Yarnold,
- Matthew Lintz as Eric Webb,
- Michael H. Cole as Pete Carey,
- David Lee Garver as Douglas Farah,
- Andrew Masset as Johnathan Krim,
- Barry Pepper as Russell Dodson,
- Richard Schiff as Walter Pincus,
- Paz Vega as Coral Baca
Review: In 1996, Webb (Jeremy Renner) reported that the CIA (Central
Intelligence Agency) supported Nicaraguan rebels smuggle cocaine to the United
States in exchange for raising funds to support secretly disadvantages. His startling
revelation about the connection of CIA cocaine traffickers apparently not fall
too well with the agency and its advertisers Cabinet - the mainstream press. Inevitably,
Webb invited ballsy act against attack. Soon, the credibility of their sources
of low life and journalistic integrity were interviewed. His own newspaper bowed
to pressure that ethics, which eventually led him to doubt in the extreme.
Adapted from own "Dark Alliance" Webb and Nick Schou "kill the messenger" says Michael Cuesta not only the story of Gary Webb, but also highlights the manipulation of the media, politicians and the sacrifices imposed a reporter newspapers to do with the discovery of a plot.
"The reason why I had enjoyed smoothly for so long it was not because I was careful and diligent and good at my work ... the truth is that all these years, I had nothing important enough remove written "Webb admits in a speech.
An excellent Jeremy Renner manages the emotional upheaval, passion and excitement of the late Gary Webb brilliantly portray. His interpretation of the word free journalist's heartbreaking. Estrella 'The Hurt Locker "offers a performance worthy of an Oscar and shows why more superior than Hawkeye (The Avengers) deserve newspapers. Michael Sheen, Ray Liotta and Andy Garcia are effective in their cameos.
That secretly hunt shooting scene in the dark in the scenes of a park or in which the camera follows Renner as a man, fresh cinematography adds to the mystery and intrigue. Grim rhythm, taut and elegant, Kill The Messenger is definitely one of the best dramas of crime of the year. Look at him.
Adapted from own "Dark Alliance" Webb and Nick Schou "kill the messenger" says Michael Cuesta not only the story of Gary Webb, but also highlights the manipulation of the media, politicians and the sacrifices imposed a reporter newspapers to do with the discovery of a plot.
"The reason why I had enjoyed smoothly for so long it was not because I was careful and diligent and good at my work ... the truth is that all these years, I had nothing important enough remove written "Webb admits in a speech.
An excellent Jeremy Renner manages the emotional upheaval, passion and excitement of the late Gary Webb brilliantly portray. His interpretation of the word free journalist's heartbreaking. Estrella 'The Hurt Locker "offers a performance worthy of an Oscar and shows why more superior than Hawkeye (The Avengers) deserve newspapers. Michael Sheen, Ray Liotta and Andy Garcia are effective in their cameos.
That secretly hunt shooting scene in the dark in the scenes of a park or in which the camera follows Renner as a man, fresh cinematography adds to the mystery and intrigue. Grim rhythm, taut and elegant, Kill The Messenger is definitely one of the best dramas of crime of the year. Look at him.