State of Play (2009)
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.
- Kevin Macdonald
- Doug Coleman
- Anna Rane
- Robb Foglia
- Matthew Michael Carnahan
- Billy Ray
- Tony Gilroy
- Paul Abbott
- Paul Abbott
Rating: 6.797/10 by 1925 users
Alternative Title:
Intrigas do Estado - BR
Велика гра - UA
State of Play - Der Stand der Dinge - DE
وضعیت بازی - IR
Country:
France
United Kingdom
United States of America
Language:
广州话 / 廣州話
English
Français
Runtime: 02 hour 07 minutes
Budget: $60,000,000
Revenue: $87,800,000
Plot Keyword: newspaper, journalist, assassin, assassination, washington dc, usa, government, corruption, congress, election campaign, politics, detective, editor-in-chief, blog, murder, reporter, u.s. congress, investigative journalism, usa politics
Good movie, great cast and interesting plot. A movies as they used to be when interesting thrillers were on the screens with higher frequency.
This movie follows a familiar subset of the thriller genre, that of the journalist investigating a story and discovering there is more involved than what meets the eye, and before he knows it there is evidence of a conspiracy stretching high into government. How high? Well, that of course varies from one conspiracy movie to the next. I couldn’t help but notice that one of the methods of death early on here was later borrowed by the series House of Cards (U.S. version). But there are only so many ways of making possible murders look like accidents or suicides, so perhaps it was coincidental. The acting and the writing were fine, however familiar the story seemed. It just felt like it wouldn’t have taken much originality to alter the plot to separate it from all the other journalistic investigations of government corruption.
