STATE OF PLAY: A Poor Man's All the President's Men

I am not sure why but I didn't think I was going to like State of Play. It was pretty good, however. The acting was very good, led by Russell Crowe and Helen Mirren.

And for once a journalist is the hero of a story and not the sniffling scum of the Earth that they generally personify in Hollywood movies.

That said Crowe's version of an investigative reporter Cal McCaffrey is far from ethical as a journalist. This is not a tutorial, nor the way a good journalist works. I guess I have to look at this role in the same way that real police officers look at those played on TV (You know when they go into the interrogation room and beat the truth out of suspects).

In the end, I did like this movie, but it is no All the President's Men.