The Fifth Estate R
You can't expose the world's secrets without exposing yourself
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 28, 2014
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: Walt Disney Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Benedict Cumberbatch & Daniel Brühl | |
Performer: | Laura Linney, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Peter Capaldi, Alexander Beyer, Dan Stevens, Michael Culkin, Jamie Blackley, Michael Kranz & Stanley Tucci | |
Directed by | Bill Condon | |
Edited by | Virginia Katz | |
Screenwriting by | Josh Singer | |
Composition by | Carter Burwell | |
Director of Photography: | Tobias Schliessler |
Entertainment Reviews:
Cumberbatch is a marvel, flaunting a white wig and his own white-hot intensity...
Rolling Stone
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The material covered in the production's 128 minutes is not only inherently non-cinematic but not remotely "thrilling," at least in the conventional sense.
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ReelViews
Those in the know say Cumberbatch's performance captures the physical Assange perfectly, but the film fails to get a handle on him as a personality, or offer any kind of insight into what his true motivation might be.
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The Spectator
Rating: 2/5 --
Cumberbatch is by far The Fifth Estate's trump card, bequeathing us with a convincing impersonation of Assange. Sadly, that's all it is: an impersonation.
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CineVue
This noncommittal viewpoint of a "half WikiLeaks documentary/ half dramatic narrative" made for, ultimately, one mediocre film.
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Cinemacy
Rating: 2/5 --
Condon misuses his characters and tries to turn the film into a suspenseful high-stakes drama but falls very short in his execution.
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Punch Drunk Critics
[A] partial treatise on how traditional media is lagging behind new models of newsgathering.
USA Today
Product Description:
Bill Condon's thriller THE FIFTH ESTATE charts the creation of WikiLeaks by the ambitious and arguably ethically dubious Julian Assange, played by Benedict Cumberbatch. The movie opens with Assange hiring Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl), a fellow tech whiz, to help him keep his new website operational. The site gave whistleblowers an entirely anonymous platform to share classified documents, and soon the pair find themselves in possession of information that will bring down a corrupt bank. As their power and influence grows, they must consider teaming with established media sources, especially when they are sent documents that would reveal ultra-sensitive state secrets from some of the world's most-powerful governments. THE FIFTH ESTATE screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
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