The Fifth Estate (The 5ifth Estate) (2013)

An average movie

“Even though this movie has a rather lame reputation, since it was dealing with an interesting story, I was still eager to check it out. Well, eventually, it turned out to be indeed a fascinating story but, unfortunately, they didn't manage to turn it into a great movie, I’m afraid. I mean, it shows that David Fincher is a great director to have managed to make such a fascinating movie about the creation of Facebook but I'm afraid Bill Condon is only a decent director and he really struggled with this material. Indeed, it seemed rather tricky to translate the digital world of hackers to the silver screen and the end-result was never really convincing or intriguing enough. In fact, it was downright annoying during some scenes. Another issue was that they never seemed to be able to choose h” read more

1 - Benedict Cumberbatch! (15 movies items)

" I love the premise of this move and found it very interesting. The concept of a transparent government. I think it's an important message to get out to people. They need to seek out information and question things. I admire what Assange was trying to do. Ben's portrayal was a celebration of him not a done to make him look bad. I haven't researched myself just how far Assange was willing to go to leak information and get huge publicity at the same time. Though someone in Assange's situatio"