An action-packed slog

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

So many things about this film remind me of "The Insider". A man under tremendous pressure. Family desperately trying to cope. Denial then sick revelations. The sound, dialogue of characters and shooting style also reminds me of the Michael Mann film.

I'm not going to talk about the film as a film because, it seems to me, a pointless exercise. We all know the story. Painful, bitter, shattering. What we didn't know, what we couldn't even imagine is what was in Joe Paterno's heart in mind. Now we have a plausible, profoundly human version of it, in Al Pacino's eyes. I saw a decent man of his generation confronted by the new approach to decency. I saw in his eyes a sort of resignation, the kind of resignation suffered by the decent man who knows he's guilty. Al Pacino is still breaking ground, still at the vanguard of his own profession. Hurrah !

What a great filmed TV movie again by HBO and Al Pacino was phenomenal.

I'm not a Penn State football fan nor have I ever been. I never even bought a ticket in the four years I went to school here and found the sports culture annoying. I still do. The fans can be really obnoxious and Penn State can be a really horrible corporation at times. Do not dismiss me as an apologist or a crazy fan. I am not. The fact that Sandusky lived in a house with a back porch overlooking my childrens' school playground still makes my skin crawl. I know a lot of people who knew Sandusky and Paterno. I know boys who went on trips with Sandusky and highly-educated parents who sent their kids with him on multiple trips. Ask yourself, if "everyone knew" or if Paterno, who everyone here knew to have a high level of integrity, knew anything, why would any parent in their right mind send their child with Sandusky? This film hints at things that simply weren't true. Everyone wants to find a scapegoat. So go ahead. Think the worst of people without any facts to back it up.