Excellent Satire, Poor Development.

• Want to know how to make a film? With war in Albany? Terrorism in Canada? Political elections intrigue? Even a mock Band Aid and war heroes? There you go! Only here the film is not screened in your local cinema, but on the TV News; and the script is not written to entertain an audience, but to manipulate the masses.

• This intelligent script shows you the making of the events you see on TV. The satire – hilarious – invites you to wonder when it starts, and when reality stops… So if you don’t like being played when you watch the news, this might interest you.

• Now, the actors are good enough, but Levinson didn’t seem to take his directing too seriously. It lacks of nerve, the camera is simplistic, the light cheap, the action too slow and not sustained by any suspense or atmosphere… It looks a bit dull.

• You have a good time with the first hour, and then the story dissolves in a vague sense of absurdity.

• The book deserved better treatment.

• To be seen for the excellent and, still, hilarious, satire.