KILL THE MESSENGER

Jeremy Renner has never been better; great job playing Gary Webb, an investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury-News who researches a story on the connection between the government and crack cocaine. This is based on a true story. the story of the Reagan administration wanting to oust the Freedom Fighters in Nicaragua but not being able to get Congress to ok the money to do this. So Reagan goes for off-the-book financing which involves the CIA buying massive amounts of cocaine and importing it into this country; mostly in the South Central L.A. area.

The money made from the drugs were used to buy guns for the Contra's with a little help from Ollie (oliver) North. Remember him? He's now a political commentator and author of thriller's.

Anyway, these printed revelations make the government very nervous so naturally, there is pressure put on the San Jose paper as well as the LA times and Washington Post to discredit Webb and his findings as unsubstantiated. Also there is a character assassination  campaign waged against Webb.

When it was revealed many years later  that everything and more was true about this conspiracy, there was already a huge Wag the Dog production going on in the government as the whole world was focused on Clinton's blow jobs and not the documents backing up the newspaper story Webb wrote.

Excellent movie; fast paced; easy to understand and once again, Jeremy
Renner was mesmerizingly wonderful. I rated the movie a 9.6; Bill gave it a 9.