The Fifth Estate

2013 • 128 minut

Informacje o filmie

Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, "The Fifth Estate" reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization. The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society—and what are the costs of exposing them?

Oceny i recenzje

This movie is pretty bad. I'm usually pretty lenient and find the good parts of a movie, but this one is just disappointing in about every way imaginable. I think the problem is that this story, in general, has the potential to be epic. However, the way it was told in this movie was just bad. The metaphor attempted just falls flat. There's very little "inside" detail that tells more than we already know. The acting is -ish. The overlayed text in the various parts attempting to reinforce the primary metaphor is poorly executed. About the only good thing I can say is that Benedict Cumberbatch is about as creepy in the movie as I imagine Assange himself to be in real life. That and somebody will probably re-make this in a few years and fix all the problems with this attempt.

I endured this to ensure I was giving it a full shake... This was just awesomely bad.... look I'm not that guy that makes fun of the action movie for what it is (single bullet that makes a helicopter explode) but this asked me to suspend too much reality to really enjoy it. If you've ever been denied entry to a group, club or gathering etc... you might enjoy this.

Interesting story and thought provoking climax towards the end. You almost can't decide whether to root for the main character or wish for his demise. Worth watching.