The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations com... (Full plot summary below)
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The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society-and what are the costs of exposing them?
Leave your thoughts about The Fifth Estate.
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfLooks to dazzle the viewer with aggressive acting and whip-crack globetrotting intrigue, yet director Bill Condon feels like he's dog paddling with material that demands an emphatic front crawl. |
| Television Without PityEthan AlterCondon doesn't trust the story -- or history itself -- to be interesting enough on its own terms. |
| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Jeff MeyersNo matter how elaborately you trick out the shot, watching actors type on computer keyboards just isn't all that dramatic; even if they're typing really, really hard and really, really fast. |
| BeliefnetNell MinowLike the journalists Assange worked with, it tries to put some shape and perspective on a story that is still too big and too new to frame as a definitive narrative. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerAn engaging and enjoyable retelling of the WikiLeaks story with an astonishing central performance from Benedict Cumberbatch ... |
| Sky CinemaTim EvansCumberbatch is handed his meatiest role yet and delivers ... |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatDrama about the controversial information freedom fighter made worth seeing by Benedict Cumberbach's tour de force performance. |
| Dallas Morning NewsChris VognarThe first narrative film portrait of the white-blond cyber bad boy feels undercooked and overwrought, haphazardly written and overdirected. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongIt may be a bit chilly, but "The Fifth Estate" is good, scary information well-processed. |
| amNewYorkRobert LevinThere's a propulsive energy that keeps things moving and fits the breakneck speed of modern media. |
