>This director showed he could handle potential dry subject
>matter, suspenseful pacing, and some big actors who are very
>capable of phoning it in (or hamming it up) if they don't
>respect you.
>
>That said, the writing got a little cute at times. I counted
>three separate instances of the "talk to me like I'm stupid"
>Sorkin exposition trick.

I think this "trick" worked well in this instance since it showed the higher up you go the less those people really know. Unless that's the staple of the Sorkin trick itself.