The Fifth Estate (2013) (original) (raw)
Through the eyes of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, an early supporter and eventual colleague of Julian Assange, the film follows the heady, early days of Wikileaks to its abrupt end after a series of controversial and history changing info leaks. The website's overnight success brought instant fame to its principal architects, but as their power expanded across the globe, Daniel grew increasingly disillusioned with Julian's questionable tactics and ethics. The rift between the two friends became irreparable and their ideological differences tore them apart, but not before they revolutionized, for ...(more)
Through the eyes of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, an early supporter and eventual colleague of Julian Assange, the film follows the heady, early days of Wikileaks to its abrupt end after a series of controversial and history changing info leaks. The website's overnight success brought instant fame to its principal architects, but as their power expanded across the globe, Daniel grew increasingly disillusioned with Julian's questionable tactics and ethics. The rift between the two friends became irreparable and their ideological differences tore them apart, but not before they revolutionized, for better and worse, the flow of information to news media and the world at large. (less)
Director: Bill Condon
Writer: Josh Singer
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Alicia Vikander, Carice van Houten, Daniel Br�hl, Laura Linney, Stanley Tucci
Producer: Steve Golin
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Review by Brian Orndorf, October 19, 2013
4 / 10
�The Fifth Estate� aspires to be a stirring investigative film dissecting a combustible situation where truth is unfiltered, participants unsecured, and the ultimate end game is hazy at best. For this type of cinema to work, it needs a lead character who�s worth following. He can be irredeemable and destructive, but has to retain a depth of personality that rewards over two hours of screen time. I�m not sure Julian Assange is worth the investment, at least not in the way �The Fifth Estate� depicts him. A hopelessly dull picture concerning a fiery situation of exposure and betrayal, the feature ...read more...
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