Given the choice of watching a recap version of something brilliant rather than the actual thing, would you choose the recap? Because that is essentially what Kevin Macdonald’s State of Play is. This remake of the 2003 BBC mini-series of the same name does little more than condense 6 episodes worth of intrigue into a 2-hour running time, rushing through its plot points just to hit all the original’s marks. It’s not any more suspenseful, cerebral, or better acted. It’s just shorter, and ultimately a poor imitation.
State of Play’s mystery kicks off when Washington Globe reporter Cal McAffrey (a bohemian Russell Crowe) is assigned to the murder of a young black teen. In the movie, the boy is a junkie whose jonesin’ gets himself involved in an assassination plot, while in the miniseries, the boy being a junkie is the media jumping to conclusion based on his race,...
State of Play’s mystery kicks off when Washington Globe reporter Cal McAffrey (a bohemian Russell Crowe) is assigned to the murder of a young black teen. In the movie, the boy is a junkie whose jonesin’ gets himself involved in an assassination plot, while in the miniseries, the boy being a junkie is the media jumping to conclusion based on his race,...
- 4/17/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
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