The picture is juicily well acted, however, particularly by Oldman, whose congressman is physically mediocre in every way yet possesses a dour firepower that never lets up.
Midnight calls, clandestine meetings, threatening e-mail messages, not to mention cell phones used as obsessively as lances and shields in a jousting epic: the circuits never stop burning in this self-important but juicily entertaining public-affairs melodrama about big-time journalism and corporate villainy.