the-fifth-estate-review-9The new film from ‘Dreamgirls’ director Bill Condon featuring the ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Benedict Cumberbatch is a rather poorly attempt of portraying the Wikileaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange.  Not only is the film a shallow explanation of a rather complex issue, which is truthtelling but a set of lacking cohesion scenes  in which Assange gets a depiction of a deprived, cocky, impertinent and narrow-minded hacker with a sole intention to destabilise the ‘world’s harmony’. On the technical side of things the ‘free-hand’ camera shots feel tacky and unimpressive. Cumberbatch’s ‘getting-into-character’ skills fail immensely, accent and hairstyle wise. The film is as much a success as Angelina Jollie’s directorial bonanza ‘In The Land of Blood and Honey’. Perhaps a different genre next time Mr Condon…

Luke Rajczuk
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  1. I have watched the film myself and unfortunately have to agree with the review. Not only have I received a bias portrayal of, in my opinion, very important character of our times but also very confusing explanation of what really happened and what Wiki-leaks was designed for. In my opinion the script was very poorly conceptualized and the story line was skewed from the start to the very end.

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