Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Nice effects though.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I would have given it a higher rating but the closing statement completely blew up the meaning of the entire story and causes of the trafficking. The closing comments stated that the government continues to do business with private contractors as though they were the primary problem. Did they forget about all the government and quasi-government organizations including the UN that were not just involved but were complicit in the scandal? In fact Bolkovac worked for a private organization. Her work would have never come forward if she worked for the government and in fact she would have never even been on the scene. I suppose if she had been paid out of some government coffer the misdeeds would never have happened in the first place or would have been more excusable.This type of guilt by association is quite common by press, entertainment and government types. Can't they ever get at the real root causes rather than demonizing and the injection of their socialist bombast?

I have three main points to make: (1) An extra star here is for the subject matter being an ongoing and seldom-covered atrocity (as opposed to yet another Holocaust film or somesuch). (2) I dreaded seeing this to be honest, but it turned out to be well, well worth it. Like many of Weisz's projects. (How surprised I would be if SHE turned out to be a shitty person.) (3) This is the sort of "strong female character" I'll wholeheartedly celebrate. Any day. Instead of the posy bullshit so fashionable these days. Just as douchebags come in both sexes and are equally gross, so do genuinely awesome humans like Bolkovac and Weiz. Maybe one day this difference will become easier for us to recognize.

The Whistleblower is a tough but necessary film to sit through. It concerns the UN back in 90's Serbia/Bosnia, a time and place characterized by extreme human savagery and unimaginable cruelty. Now during this brutal conflict, hundreds of young, displaced refugee girls were caught up in the chaos of it all and trapped in sex slavery, which was rampant at the time, creating another tragic blemish in history made worse by the fact that the UN knew well and good what was going on and did little to nothing to stop it. It's heartbreaking material no doubt, but there's a light in the darkness in the form of UN ambassador Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) who can't stand by and watch the corruption continue, confronting her superiors which creates further friction. The thing is, in a time of such wanton crisis, a lot of elements in the equation get written off as collateral damage or acceptable losses tearfully tallied up in barely disguised apathy in service of some greater good. Kathryn's UN boss Bill Hynes (Liam Cunningham in a nice extended cameo) has this reprehensible, all too common outlook and won't do anything to help the imprisoned girls. For a lot of people in Ivory towers of detachment, the plight of less fortunate people may not seem like a cause to get riled up over. Not Kathryn. She won't stand for it, and launches a personal crusade to expose those in power who aid and allow the sex trade to survive, and bring them down. With help from two sympathetic colleagues (David Strathairn and Vanessa Redrave) she navigates the tricky, war torn personal and bureaucratic terrains to try and liberate girls who've barely begun life and have already found themselves in hell. Weisz has an innate compassion in any role we see her in, making her the perfect woman to play this character who risks all she has to save complete strangers from a horrific fate. It should be noted that there are intense scenes of violent sexual abuse here that are super tough to watch, but necessary to impart that importance of the girl's struggle to the audience. It's nice to see true stories about a single person who stands up for many others in the face of pure evil.. gives me hope for our upside down world. PS: watch for a brief cameo from Benedict Cumberbatch.

At first I thought that this is just another thriller film, but as the film progresses, I soon come to realize that this film is different. Watching this film sends chills down my spine. Some of the scenes are really hard to watch. The entire film sends a message of anger deep down in my heart and how I wish those people who are involved in the disgusting and sickening business of sex trafficking be severely punished.I sincerely hope that this film will send a strong message to authorities around the world to step up to fight human trafficking.Overall, an eye opening film with Rachel Weisz delivering a solid performance.