Two great actors and one good one giving solid performances until the story gets pulled out from under them at the end, and crashes into unlikelihood.
It’s almost as if the screenwriter died three fourths of the way through the film, and some teenage graphic novel hack was put to writing and glued on the ending.
Plot twists are great if they’re plausible, and if you know when to stop twisting.
There was also a bit too much blatant pandering to the failing newspaper industry, almost as if they were a major sponsor.
A petty thief is gunned down in an alley and a Congressman’s assistant falls in front of a subway – two seemingly unrelated deaths.
But not to wisecracking, brash newspaper reporter Cal McAffrey who spies a conspiracy waiting to be uncovered.
With a turbulent past connected to the Congressman and the aid of ambitious young rookie writer Della Frye, Cal begins uprooting clues that lead him to a corporate cover-up full of insiders, informants, and assassins.
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