AICN's resident super genius dives into the film concerning Julian Assange and the Wikileaks thing!
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THE FIFTH ESTATE is a an entertaining, balanced, but slightly flawed look at the early days of Wikileaks. It was directed by Bill Condon, who has done some great stuff, but now has the stink of TWILIGHT upon him. What's good? An important story told well, and a great performance by Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Asange. What's bad? Poor treatment of computers (which are at the heart of the story), and a third act that lacks nuance.
Comparisons to THE SOCIAL NETWORK are obvious. This is the story of the creation of a disruptive technology that has changed our world, and its driven, but flawed founder. Both are based on tell-all books by early partners who reveal considerable nastiness behind the imperfect men at the centers of their stories. The team here can't match the dynamism of Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher, but to their credit, they stick closer to the facts.
Condon walks the line between beatification and vilification by presenting both the greatness achieved by Asange and his rather sizable faults. He leads with The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel all coordinating to go live with the Bradley Manning leaks, and then takes us back in time to the early days when Wikileaks was little more than Asange and bluster. The story begins in earnest with the meeting between Daniel Domscheit-Berg (played by Daniel Bruhl) and Asange. Domscheit-Berg was Asange's right hand man, and in the early days Wikileaks was just the two of them and some
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