Film Review - Kill the Messenger
October 09, 2014
A journalism thriller with an explosive subject of corruption and cover-up to inspect, “Kill the Messenger” is quite sharp when it comes to the depiction of stomach-churning betrayals and eye-wiggling paranoia. As a complete appreciation of the offenses that eventually overwhelmed writer Gary Webb, less is understood, leaving “Kill the Messenger” a fiery picture with nowhere to go, hitting a few painful incidents of pressure before it’s back in a dramatic gray area. Director Michael Cuesta is a gifted helmer, great with gritty, streetwise tales of survival, and moments score in the feature. There are just not enough of them to shake off a few questions of authenticity concerning Webb’s painful decline. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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