a5c7b9f00b A coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress. David Brice, the Secretary of Defense is feuding with a powerful Senator over a project that Brice wants to discontinue which the Senator wants to push through and Brice knows that the Senator will the Director of the CIA whom he has in his pocket to get an edge on Brice. So Brice has Tom Farrell a Naval Intelligence officer assigned to him to help combat the Director. Farrell upon arriving in Washington hooks up with Susan Atwell a woman whom he had a brief liaison with when he was in Washington a few months ago. He doesn't know that Atwell is Brice's mistress as well. When Brice learns that she's been seeing someone else kills her. Now to find the man she's been seeing so that he could not tell anyone about her and Brice, Scott Pritchard, Brice's confidant suggests that they claim that Yuri, a Russian spy whom some people believe is an urban legend killed her. So the search commences, Farrell tries to find a way to get Brice to stop the search before they find him cause he knows Pritchard plans to kill the guy when they find him. Excellent, thought-provoking, intricately crafted thriller, with plenty of plot twists and turns. This is one of the most under-rated movies of the last twenty years. One of the first movies to show how things in Washington may actually work… I just got done watching No Way Out a while ago and was three quarters of the way through before I realized I'd actually seen it before so I guess it didn't stay unforgettable to me, although I will say this was an extremely well done, sleek thriller with an interesting Premise. In spite of that, I didn't love it though it's tough to say exactly why. The best I can do is say that, the movie while not lacking a sense of intrigue, was at times very dull. The buildup is extremely slow, your waiting a bit to long for real tension to set in, and although it's very exciting at times it never reaches the on the edge of your seat excitement until the very end.<br/><br/>I was, however, very impressed with the acting in this, everyone was perfectly cast, and it remained interesting enough to keep watching but I did think it was Just a bit overrated(I have heard this described as one of the best psychological thrillers of all time.)While I definitely do not think it was that, The IMDb rating of a perfect 7, is probably about right.<br/><br/>SPOILERS:<br/><br/>I was a bit baffled by the ending which I may never understand completely. I will say it was a great twist in a sense, but it throws a lot of things into confusion and I can see I am gonna have to go on the IMDb message board to get an accurate sense of what exactly went on because darned if I understand it. I'm glad I saw it though, this movie was definitely well acted and original, if not my favorite. And lastly, oh those 80's hairstyles…. Gripping…A very convincing nightmare, and if Hackman gives too rounded a performance to approach the omniscient evil of Laughton's original, Patton assumes the mantle as Brice's henchman, while Costner confirms his arrival as a star. Clearly, they can remake 'em like that any more.
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