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Junior Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) pursue the one story that no one else in the press wants to touch: Watergate. They know the burglers are connected to the top men in the Republican party all the way up to President Nixon's White House, but they need the sources to prove it. Enter Deep Throat.

The hot tips provided by the informant that to this day has not been named (Bernstein swears that his name will be revealed upon his death) broke the dam on the Watergate case and led to a wild goose chase by two renegade reporters with nothing to lose. This film creates more suspense with a story of scandal and dirty politics than modern movies can manage with all the sex and carnage they can muster.

I felt a little disappointed by the quick ending. It's not that it seemed tacked on, it just ended a little too swiftly for my taste, but with a running time of nearly 2 hours 20 minutes I guess they decided it couldn't go any further. The acting was as good as it gets, with Redford and Hoffman together in their prime. They made Woodward and Bernstein a legendary duo that I'm sure many young journalists still idolize today.

Rating: 8.0 out of 10