State of Play

I saw the film, State of Play starring Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck.  Both of them gave rather good performances but nothing to write home about.  The best thing about this movie it the plot.  It involves a huge conspiracy involving a company doing some shady business-work.  One major strength of the plot is that I knew what was going on in the movie the entire time, and that is very rare in a movie with a plot as complicated as this.  Also, many of the twists the plot took where unexpected and very compelling.  Plus, Jason Bateman from Arrested Development (my favorite TV show) gives a stellar performance in a pivotal scene.

State of Play - 3.5 out of 4

-Zach