Synopsis
The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of Dr. David Kelly and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom.
2005 Directed by Peter Kosminsky
The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of Dr. David Kelly and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom.
Shame on you Tony Blair, Alistair Campbell et al. Blood on your hands.
Now that's out of the way....
Peter Kosminsky's 2005 dramatisation of the life and death of Dr David Kelly, the former UN weapons inspector who, in the wake of the WMD fiasco, became something of a weapon himself, deployed by both government and the BBC. It ultimately led, just two days after his appearance at the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, to his death and presumed suicide on Harrowden Hill on the evening of the 17th July 2003.
Kosminsky's film is an absorbing righteous yell of anger that grips like a vice from start to finish. Rightly and respectfully, Kosminsky doesn't dwell on the reasons or indeed the…
v interesting from a history point of view more than a particularly engaging film.
Alistair Campbell’s actor has captured him perfectly though