The cast and story deserved better than this. The director's inexperience shows in the heavy-handed and sometimes melodramatic treatment this deeply disturbing episode is given. It works best as a conspiracy thriller and there are genuinely suspenseful moments but the filmmaker'a agenda is too obvious. From the opening scenes, this is clearly about women suffering in a man's world and that message is repeated over and over again. An experienced director, or one with more distance from the script, would have wooed his or her audience rather than assaulting them and the message would have been all the more effective.
Review of The Whistleblower
