Review of Truth (2015) by Rostek P — 20 Jan 2016

Blanchett has her moments in this film, especially in the exposition where she comes off as sexy, kind of. But the script is a big mess and the cheap pathos in the final act was a big turnoff. I didn't need to see the journalists on the team as morally superior heroes who are sacrificed by a corrupt system and have to fight back.

I wanted to see something beyond the trash media is pushing down our throats every single day. Yes, politicians are fucking liars. But this film is just as insincere. And what's more important - in terms of its script and the direction, it's a masterpiece of trash.

It doesn't even have something of a visual identity, but adopts the stylistic approach of many other - and better - films, such as The Insider. (That one had a terrific script as well.) The actors (Blanchett and especially Redford whose big star charisma worked for me, maybe for the first time) are the film's saving grace, even though they're given very little to work with.

The characters are written either as smart, heroic and independent journalists-fighters with a consciousness or as links of the corrupt, vulgar and mediocre bunch - people who don't have the balls to fight and even to think on their own.

Fellas, You had a pretty interesting protagonist and you didn't have to turn her into a martyr. You could have presented me with an issue to win us over. I myself, as a hardcore liberal, still got angry (despite of your mediocre take on the issue).

But give me an issue, not a hero, especially when it's an uphill battle to make the crowd you address your story to (liberals, right?) believe that this lady is a hero. End of rant.