BRILLIANT

Fantastic true story concerning the period that began in 1947 when american drew up a blacklist of communist members and intended to discover all of them. Not only this but any person who had just attended one communist meeting had to appear on trial and give names of their friends to the court, who were then also said to be communist. If you were suspected of being a communist at this time then your life was ruined, you could not get any work, were constantly followed by the secret services and this pressure mounted.

Robert De Niro gives a great performance and the film oozes style, cars, buildings and the music all look genuinely 1950's. Heart stopping moments and thrills occur, overall a great film with a cameo appearance from Martin Scorsese.