Movie Title - The Whistleblower
Genre - Thriller
Rated - R
Rated - R
Studio - 20th Century Fox
Release Date - January 24, 2012
Running Time - 112 Min
Rating - 4 Golden Bridges
Reviewed By - GC
Comments
- - The Film - -
I've been a fan of Rachel Weicz since The Mummy films so when I saw the cover of the blu-ray box I decided to check it out. I only vaguely remembered this film playing in theaters so I had little to go on. The cover features Rachel in the leather jacket she wears throughout most of the film and she is holding what appears to be a pistol. However if you are expecting Rachel as Dirty Harriet, you will be sadly disappointed. I don't think there is one scene in the film where she is actually holding the gun on the cover. As a matter of fact, the film really has no action at all.
Rachel stars as Karen Bolkovic, a Nebraska police officer with money problems. So she becomes part of a UN sponsored international police force stationed in Bosnia. It is there that she discovers the sad fact of white slavery and human trafficking in girls for prostitution. Furthermore she learns that the UN powers-that-be are well-aware of it and some of her fellow policemen are actually involved and profiting from it themselves. The girls trapped in this horrible life are raped constantly and the film does not shy away from some difficult scenes. The suspense in the film builds gradually until she is fired from her job and must obtain and smuggle out files indicating her superiors' knowledge of what has been going on. The film comes to an abrupt but positive conclusion.
Weicz is great as usual (and looks good no matter what role she is playing.) Vanessa Redgrave plays a UN official sympathetic to Rachel's plight. (At one point in the film, she states the UN was created to prevent another Auschwitz. I thought this was amusing coming from the actress who blasted the "Zionist Hoodlums" at the Academy Award Show of 1976.) David Straihern plays one of the few fellow cops Rachel can trust and Monica Bellucci looks great in her couple scenes as another UN official.
It seemed to me that there was much cut out of this film, but we will never know since there are no deleted scenes. The editing seemed a bit confusing at times. The only special feature was a short segment on the real Karen Bolkovic who, needless to say, looks nothing like Rachel Weicz.
This film is hard to take at times but is recommended if you want to be aware of a shocking and disgusting activity that is still thriving in parts of the world.
I've been a fan of Rachel Weicz since The Mummy films so when I saw the cover of the blu-ray box I decided to check it out. I only vaguely remembered this film playing in theaters so I had little to go on. The cover features Rachel in the leather jacket she wears throughout most of the film and she is holding what appears to be a pistol. However if you are expecting Rachel as Dirty Harriet, you will be sadly disappointed. I don't think there is one scene in the film where she is actually holding the gun on the cover. As a matter of fact, the film really has no action at all.
Rachel stars as Karen Bolkovic, a Nebraska police officer with money problems. So she becomes part of a UN sponsored international police force stationed in Bosnia. It is there that she discovers the sad fact of white slavery and human trafficking in girls for prostitution. Furthermore she learns that the UN powers-that-be are well-aware of it and some of her fellow policemen are actually involved and profiting from it themselves. The girls trapped in this horrible life are raped constantly and the film does not shy away from some difficult scenes. The suspense in the film builds gradually until she is fired from her job and must obtain and smuggle out files indicating her superiors' knowledge of what has been going on. The film comes to an abrupt but positive conclusion.
Weicz is great as usual (and looks good no matter what role she is playing.) Vanessa Redgrave plays a UN official sympathetic to Rachel's plight. (At one point in the film, she states the UN was created to prevent another Auschwitz. I thought this was amusing coming from the actress who blasted the "Zionist Hoodlums" at the Academy Award Show of 1976.) David Straihern plays one of the few fellow cops Rachel can trust and Monica Bellucci looks great in her couple scenes as another UN official.
It seemed to me that there was much cut out of this film, but we will never know since there are no deleted scenes. The editing seemed a bit confusing at times. The only special feature was a short segment on the real Karen Bolkovic who, needless to say, looks nothing like Rachel Weicz.
This film is hard to take at times but is recommended if you want to be aware of a shocking and disgusting activity that is still thriving in parts of the world.
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