Fifth Estate

The Fifth Estate

Summary:

As based on a true story “The Fifth Estate” gives off a kind of “BLEHHH” reaction to the viewers. “The Fifth Estate” is based on the vibrant story of Wikileaks, founder Julian Assange. Though this movie gave absolutely no justice to the actual story it intended to, it did leave an eye open to the more than capable new stars.

Its most obvious predecessor, “The Social Network,” gave this film the image that it indeed has no story of life and the weaknesses are obvious.

Now the story takes off with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his newly found colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl) team up to take down the underground secrets of the government. On the flip of a dime this duo creates a platform that allows “whistle-blowers” to anonymously leak top secret information. This starts bringing light to the dark side of the governments dirty secrets and corporate crimes. Soon this team makes breaking news and creates a scandal that is bigger than any media break in history! Sounds cool, but they really downplay this event in the movie. In the end the duo go head to head with the new information they have, millions of lives could be in danger if they released this information. What are they going to do??? SPOILER ALERT!! Don't watch the movie, they delete the whole website..

Personal Opinion:

This movie was very slow to get started. I felt lost within the first ten minutes. I almost seems as if you would need to have full researched knowledge about the Wikileaks event before going into this movie, which my friend and I knew hardly nothing of the event. I now know how sad that truly is, but I almost walked out of the movie theatre three times... for some reason this movie, though lacking the thrilling factor, still kept me in my seat and waiting to see if the climax would build at all. Sadly it did not, if fact the best part of the movie was at the very end when we had little subtitles to read informing us what had happened in real life. This came me SOOOOO much more clarity!

Starring:

*Benedict Cumberbatch (Frankenstein, Hawking, and Star Trek Into Darkness)

*Daniel Bruhl (Ladies in Lavender, Salvador, and The Bourne Ultimatum)

*Anthony Mackie ( 8 Mile, Brother to Brother, and The Hurt Locker)

*David Thewlis (Harry Potter Film Series, James and the Giant Peach, The Omen, and Warhorse)

*Alicia Vikander (Seventh Son)

*Stanley Tucci (Lovely Bones, Devil Wears Prada, and Kiss of Death)

*Laura Linney( The Big C, Frasier, and Mystic River)

Extras:

Director: Bill Condon

Producer: Steve Golins

Screenplay: Josh Singer

Distributed By: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Ratings:

Overall the satisfactory ratings have been 48%.

Opening date: October 18, 2013

Rated: R

Sources:


http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_fifth_estate/


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/movies/the-fifth-estate-with-benedict-cumberbatch-as-julian-assange.html?_r=0


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Estate_(film)