The Republican "reasoning" behind the events detailed in KILL THE MESSENGER is indefensible. Thanks to Wretched Ron, "it was raining coke." (Let us now praise Infamous men...) As Renner as Webb puts it: "National security and crack cocaine in the same sentence? Does that not sound strange to you?" Andy Garcia as drug lord Meneses sums up the general consensus of all concerned: "The ends justify the means." But it's the line from the insider Weil that sums up what happened to Gary Webb when he warns him that "some stories are just too true to tell." "I didn't realize Truth was a shade of gray," Webb says at one point. In THIS company, there IS no Truth: it's been systematically strangled in the dead of night, around conference tables and at international business meetings- and it's happening even as I write this: the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Top Secret international Moneymakers deal, is moving right along, as is the ridiculous cross-country pipeline (construction of which was never slowed while the "debate" wore on). The death of Webb, while "acceptable" to some, still sounds shaky to me: a "suicide" that took TWO shots to finish...? Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't BET it was suicide...
Review of Kill the Messenger
