Bombshell
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ikuyamaki There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2020 Verified Purchase I expected this movie to be an expose on Roger Ailes, and it was to a degree. But the movie went on to make all of the men at Fox News look completely exploitive of women, and/or mindless minions of the organization. It portrayed Megan Kelly as the only smart, legitimate journalist at Fox. One who everyone held in high esteem, with her entourage following her through the halls of Fox. And all the men lusting over her. And I mean ALL of the men. The movie also implied that avid viewers of Fox are witless followers of the "cult" that Ailes created, and conservatives are gullible and feebleminded. I was personally offended, and shut it off after about 30 minutes.
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ikuyamaki Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2019 Theater review. Possible spoilers. Director Jay Roach might not seem like the director for an expose like this given his resume (Austin Powers movies, Meet the Fockers, Dinner for Schmucks) but he pulls it off. Some of the credit would seem to go to writer Charles Randolph who was responsible for “The Big Short. ” This film has much of that style. That is narration, superimposed facts, etc. The film is focused on Roger Ailes (excellent John Lithgow in a fat suit and heavy facial makeup) who single handedly put Fox News on the television map. His marketing acumen may have been successful but he also left a bevy of female staffers humiliated at best and sexually assaulted at worst. There are 3 women at the center of the story. Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman) is the first to bring Ailes’ misdeeds to light. She had gone from a rising star on the Fox morning show to a less visable host in a late afternoon time slot. Why? She had shunned Ailes’ sexual advances. She leaves the network fairly early in the movie and sues Ailes personally. In an award-worthy performance, Charlize Theron plays Megyn Kelly who remains at the network but is under scrutiny because of the 2016 presidential debate where she asks candidate Donald Trump about his treatment of women in the past. Ailes and indeed Fox were backers of Trump and were stunned by the question. Kelly suffered the consequences for a long time and later acknowledged Alies had come on to her earlier in her career. The third woman is Kayla Pospisil (Margo Robbie). Kayla is an amalgam of actual women at Fox over the years. She’s highly supportive of the network and Ailes from the beginning. She is also hungry for advancement and manages to get Ailes’ attention. In a scene that had most of the audience squirming in their seats, Ailes auditions Kayla by modeling in front of him. He urges her to keep hiking up her skirt in order to see her legs – “It’s a visual medium he suggests.
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ikuyamaki Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2020 Verified Purchase This movie was ok, but definitely not too interesting, in fact quite boring. This seemed more like a movie to get at Trump and conservatives than a movie about sexual harassment. The part about the FOX desk worker who is "secretly" a "lesbian" was just to much to swallow, and with lots of virtue signalling throughout.
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ikuyamaki Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2020 Verified Purchase I'm glad that the subject of sexual harassment is being put out there in all its complexity. I don't think they really needed to throw in the lesbian stuff. If they felt it was necessary why didn't they do a better job of it? Seriously, a closet lesbian at Fox News ends up in bed with an ambitious, devout conservative? Anyone that can't see through that unbelievable scenario is more than willing to believe that all sexually harassed women are mentally ill. That is all that scenario created for the Me Too movement.