Bombshell 4K 2019 Ultra HD 2160p

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2016. After being abruptly fired, TV host Gretchen Carlson decides to sue her former boss, Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, for sexual harassment. While her former assistant Kayla, a young and ambitious girl, is looking for ways to advance her career, popular journalist and news anchor Megyn Kelly, just recovering from being attacked by Donald Trump supporters for uncomfortable questions in TV interviews, tries to find out how many other girls in this big company have been harassed by their bosses.

Review 4K Movie

It's no secret that over the last couple of years the American film industry has been torn apart by many different scandals. Beginning with the call for equal rights for black filmmakers and women to participate in certain projects and ending with the same demands of representatives of non-traditional sexual and gender orientations. But by far the most scandalous phenomenon is the wave of allegations of rape and sexual harassment that have destroyed the careers and lives of dozens of people. One of the first and main pages of this wave was the exposure of the once powerful and influential Roger Ailes, which director Jay Roach decided to explore in his film.

The plot of this film, directed by Jay Roach, tells the story of the scandalous exposure of sexual harassment by the once very powerful, powerful and seemingly unsinkable Roger Ailes, who was a media consultant to presidential candidates Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Donald Trump, as well as being the founder of Fox News and a veritable media empire. When TV anchors Gretchen Carlson, Megyn Kelly and a dozen other women went against him and decided to expose him.

Perhaps few would argue that the creators of this film decided to ride on the current very "hot" topic of sexual harassment and for good reason, they paid attention to one of the main topics, which, combined with the scandal surrounding Harvey Weinstein and became the basis of this very wave of revelations and accusations of harassment.

The creators of this film initially set themselves the goal of reflecting as objectively and comprehensively as possible the events that took place in 2016 on the screen. In doing so, they are equally successful in paying attention to the little-known details of the "behind-the-scenes kitchen" within the walls of Fox News and in providing impressive coverage of events on behalf of a huge number of different characters and revelations of the real victims of harassment on the part of Roger Ailes. Nevertheless, the story seems a bit overstuffed and sterile.

It is also worth admitting that, at the same time as it is biographical, the filmmakers of the film made some changes to the story that were made for the sake of cinematography and immediately say so at the beginning of the film. Some of the changes benefited the story, while others did not. For example, I found the Donald Trump storyline in the first half of the film to be utterly boring, subjective and created solely for the sake of hype on another now popular topic - the belittling of Trump and opposition to his policies. When how the implantation into the story of the completely fictionalized Kayla Pospisil, played by Margot Robbie, gave the numerous victims of Ailes a single flesh-and-blood symbol and made the theme of harassment and the stories of these victims even more poignant.

In terms of directing, Roach showed nothing surprising. The picture seems energetic and dynamic for the first half hour due to the torn and dynamic editing. But as the plot progresses, it begins to lose its grip. You can see with the naked eye that Roach was inspired by McKay's "The Authority" and "The Lowdown Game" when making his film. But where McKay managed to make even the usual dialogue scenes extremely exciting, Roach delivers an absolutely sterile picture in terms of atmosphere and emotion that fails to make any impression at all.

One of the main merits of the picture is magnificent selection of worthy actors with whom the authors obviously did not make a mistake. Starring Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie, they wonderfully coped with their roles and deservedly played their roles on the screen. However, if Kidman and Robbie played their roles in the "duty form", Theron really surprised and played one of the best roles of her career, which should be rewarded with prestigious awards and the upcoming Oscar. Not to mention the fact that she is hardly recognizable in the make-up and only her smile gives her away at times. John Lithgow shows a perfect match with the character, who managed to create an extremely powerful, deep and strong image on the screen. Justly beat Russell Crowe in the mini-series on a similar theme.