There are brilliant conspiracy thrillers like THE PARALLAX VIEW and there are TV movie-style conspiracy thrillers like this one, which clumsily juggles multiple story lines and lets its persuasive cast get swept away in a backwash of political cross-purposes. Back when he was in college, John McWhirter (Fred Ward) allowed political-activist friends to cover for his participation in a bungled ROTC bombing. No longer a radical, the guilt-ridden, alcoholic McWhirter has become a newspaper journalist who investigates crimes like the assassination of pro-Israeli tycoon Frank Somner (A. Frank Ruffo). Then McWhirter's past catches up with him, as former political cronies Si...
Released:
2001
Rated:
R
Length:
97 mins