Currently in post-production, a trailer for the forthcoming based-on-a-true-story sex trafficking drama “The Whistleblower” has made its way online, and given the talent involved, it’s surprisingly not very engaging.
Playing like a re-tooled version of “The Constant Gardener,” the film finds Rachel Weisz playing Kathryn Bolkovac a Nebraska cop who gets drawn into an investigation into the seedy world of international sexual slavery. C0-starring David Strathairn, Monica Bellucci and Vanessa Redgrave it seems like it should be a slam dunk, no brainer of a topical, interesting drama but it plays like a pretty rote walk through this kind of material. The film marks the feature debut of Larysa Kondracki who wrote the film with Eilis Kirwan.
No word yet on distributors or release dates but you can read the official synopsis and watch the trailer after the jump:
Kathryn Bolkovac is a Nebraska cop who is thrust into the gravelly snake pit of UN regulated Bosnia. She works as part of a private corporate army, training Bosnian police to restore order to the war-torn country. As she begins to get the lay of the land in her new environment, she starts to see signs of a terrible underground industry whose patrons are not only from within the corporation but from within the United Nations as well. After finding a woman who has escaped from a human trafficker selling sex slaves to hidden brothels in the area, Kathryn begins to see how expansive an industry it has become in the years following the war. As she gathers more and more evidence to bring to light she discovers the last thing she ever expected, that there is no way for the corporate army and UN officers to be held accountable for their actions. Based on the harrowing true story of a single womans quest for justice in the face of a truth no one wanted to expose and organizations facilitating the very crimes they were created to stop. But is one woman enough to go up against the United Nations and its corporate conspirators.
I don't understand the Constant Gardener comparison. In the context you've used it, you make it sound like an unfavorable comparison, but The Constant Gardner is a pretty darn good movie. Also, I doubt this movie will have the surprisingly emotional climax of "Gardner".
Spake for yourself, i think looks great and Rachel Weisz is great in anything.
As for The Constant Gardner, if this film is even half as good, i would be happy with it.
Every time I see that poster it looks like a fake poster for an Apatow comedy that Weisz is playing a movie star in. (Speaking of which, they should cast her in an Apatow comedy.)
Weisz is always gold, even in plastic films, so I'll probably see this in some context.
I was interested in this project until I discovered that Nicolas Chartier (the 'funny' guy that send emails to members of the Oscar Academy to vote his movie over Avatar and recently decided to sue people for downloading The Hurt Locker)is producing.
Love Rachel Weisz, she's the best actress we have working today. Can't wait for this film.