The Whistleblower

The Whistleblower is about a divorced police officer who needs some extra cash and decides that taking a job with the United Nations is the best way to make some.  Once she gets there she finds extreme human abuses taking place that she cannot stand for.  Specifically the movie deals with human trafficking and the effect it has on the women and the community as a whole.  The Whistleblower is based on a true story.

The movie takes you to post-war Bosnia and it's efforts to recover.  The story to this film kept you involved with each new development that took place.  Characters were pretty good.  The one place where I would say the story struggled was at some of the dramatic sequences I just didn't care enough. 

The movie stars Rachel Weisz as our police officer turned UN official.  Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci and David Strathairn (Bourne Ultimatum) also play major roles in the film.  Weisz stands out as again doing a fantastic job in this keenly dramatic role.  The others are very good, particularly Strathairn. Benedict Cumberbatch, of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, also has a small role in this film.

I enjoyed The Whistleblower quite a bit.  It was a very dramatic film with not much of a happy ending though, which is always a turn off to me.  I would probably say this one is worth checking out.