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Running time: 128 MIN.
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(U.S.-Belgium) A Touchstone Pictures (in U.S.) release of a DreamWorks Pictures and Reliance Entertainment presentation in association with Participant Media of an Anonymous Content production. Produced by Steve Golin, Michael Sugar. Executive producers, Richard Sharkey, Paul Green, Jeff Skoll, Jonathan King. Co-producers, Greg Yolen, Jack Morrissey, Hilde de Laere, Emmeline Yang.
Crew

Directed by Bill Condon. Screenplay, Josh Singer, based on the books "Inside WikiLeaks" by Daniel Domscheit-Berg and "WikiLeaks" by David Leigh and Duke Harding. Camera (color, HD, widescreen), Tobias Schliessler; editor, Virginia Katz; music, Carter Burwell; production designer, Mark Tidesley; costume designer, Shay Cunliffe; art director, Denis Schnegg; set decorator, Veronique Melery; sound (Dolby Digital/SDDS/Datasat), John Rodda; sound designer/supervising sound editor, Warren Shaw; re-recording mixers, Tony Lamberti, Michael Minkler; assistant director, Barrie McCullough; casting, Lucy Bevan.
With

Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Bruehl, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Peter Capaldi, Moritz Bleibtreu, Carice van Houten, Dan Stevens, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney.
After an opening credits montage that rockets through the history of news media, from hand-lettered scrolls to the Internet, the pic leaps into the peak October 2010 moment of WikiLeaks’ fame and notoriety, when, in tandem with the New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel, Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) began releasing an enormous store of leaked classified U.S. government documents. The resulting fracas outshone even prior firestorms incurred by WikiLeaks’ exposure of the American military’s massacre of unarmed civilians and journalists in Afghanistan; ruling corruption in Kenya and elsewhere; Swiss bank Julius Baer providing a massive tax dodge for wealthy clients around the world; and ugly truths behind Iceland’s economic collapse. In the fallout, as postscripts note, Assange remains in hiding (at Ecuador’s London embassy) while various angry governments call for his extradition.

The remainder of the film tracks back to 2007, when he first makes contact with German technology activist Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruehl), whom he trusts enough to make a close collaborator — rare for a man whose paranoias are reinforced not only by the dangerous intel he helps make public, but by a traumatic Ozzie upbringing within the New Age cult known as the Family (glimpsed in brief flashbacks).

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Daniel is an enthusiastic acolyte, so much so that the 24/7 devotion Julian demands soon exasperates Daniel’s girlfriend (Alicia Vikander in a standard thankless role). The mysterious, seemingly large Wiki organization Assange frequently alludes to turns out to be nothing but “a website, a couple email addresses, and you,” he eventually admits, though others climb on board — notably Daniel’s master-hacker friend Marcus (Moritz Bleibtreu) and Icelandic agitator Birgitta Jonsdottir (Carice van Houten).

But even as WikiLeaks appears to be winning the information war in forcing transparency from governments and corporations, pushing them toward greater ethical accountability, Assange show signs of megalomania, instability and questionable judgment. Returning to the screenplay’s start point, his troops rebel when Assange balks at redacting any top-secret American communiques, even the parts that might put innocent lives at lethal risk in global hot spots around the globe.

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- Any five minutes of foregrounded human interest or backgrounded news material here could easily float a feature on its own. Both the kindest and most damning thing you can say about “The Fifth Estate” is that it primarily hobbles itself by trying to cram in more context-needy material than any single drama should have to bear.

You can feel the strain on “The West Wing” writer Singer, penning his first bigscreen effort, as practically every line has to sum up a philosophy, situation or dilemma. Likewise, Condon, usually a director of admirable cogency and restraint, lays on a battery of audiovisual tactics (onscreen text, graphics, split screen, vertical wipes, etc.), largely set to techno tracks or Carter Burwell’s equally pounding score. Tobias Schliesser’s camera often jitters as if on its 10th espresso, while Virginia Katz’s editing seldom pauses for breath. There’s conceptual logic behind these decisions, but they are as frequently off-putting as they are thematically apt.

 No wonder the two perhaps most memorable scenes are among the very few that slow enough to allow nuance: an uncomfortable visit to Daniel’s parents’ home, when Julian openly disdains them as bourgeois intellectuals; and a let’s-just get-drunk moment between Laura Linney and Stanley Tucci as State Dept. honchos whose careers won’t likely survive the latest Wiki leaks.

An array of fine British, European and Middle Eastern actors fill other supporting roles, making the most of fleeting opportunities. But for all its flexibility in imagining what might make its real-life characters tick, “

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” conveys less sense of personal insight into its two main figures than “We Steal Secrets” did (and Gibney didn’t even have direct access to Assange). German star Bruehl (also co-headlining another big English-language Toronto title, “Rush”) is stuck playing Domscheit-Berg — who wrote one of the two tomes the script draws on — as a single-note nice guy, the standard audience-alter-ego witness to events that spiral out of control. Hardworking Cumberbatch captures Assange’s slightly otherworldly air, as well as numerous creepier qualities. (The real-life man may be a hero to many, but few claim he’s a nice guy.) Still, it too feels like a somewhat one-dimensional turn , hemmed in by an overall sensibility that just can’t stop to probe deeper.