Nothing But the Truth - A thriller that doesn’t need the ‘thrills’

Most – supposed – ‘thrillers’ tend to rely on high-octane stuff to try and keep their audiences on the edge of their seats.  However, ‘Nothing But the Truth’ tends to shy away from this, choosing instead to just tell quite tense story – without anyone ever really being in much of a tense/life-threatening situation.

It tells the (almost true) story of a journalist (Kate Beckinsale) who ‘outs’ a CIA operative in her newspaper.  Naturally, the government isn’t too happy about this and demands that she reveals her ‘source.’ She refuses and must suffer the consequences, or buckle.

The other thing that’s worth noting is that Kate Beckinsale probably gives her best performance to date.  I’ve seen more than a few scathing comments online about how she ‘can’t act.’ Hopefully, if people watch her in this, they may just choose to reconsider and see her as more than just a vampire-huntess in leather.

Like I say, there’s no real ‘action’ or thrills, i.e. people being stalked through creepy locations.  However, it is pretty tense.  You will care about the characters and what happens to them.  Plus it isn’t a short film.  If you want to watch this, you’ll need nearly two hours of talking/tension to sit through.  But, if you’re in the mood for that, you’ll find yourself rewarded with a rae thriller of the type that Hollywood doesn’t make many of these days.

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that