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The story is based on a true story of sexual harassment in the bowels of Fox News. Two female employees of the popular channel, Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly, accused their manager Roger Ailes of harassment, who subsequently had to resign his post.

Bombshell 4K Review
Surprisingly, 'Bombshell' loses on two fronts at once: the story (by the way, it's real) is weak in itself, and the feelings from watching the film are far from delightful. It seems to me that the filmmakers just decided to make a big splash on the urgent problem of harassment in Hollywood, without putting any effort or soul into their sterile creation. But first things first.

Why doesn't the story work? Because it's not pathetic. It immediately brings to mind the similar case of Harvey Weinstein, when the lit fuse from the first harassment accusation set off a violent chain reaction and rattled the career of the most successful producer of the dream factory to smithereens. After that, I think the vast majority of people asked themselves only one question: "Why didn't you say something before? The answer was utterly banal: prestige, career advancement, and a steady paycheck were worth more than tarnished honor and dignity. 'Bombshell' only rooted me in this thought (I may be wrong, but that's how the big picture is shaping up at the moment). Just looking at the not at all unsympathetic sequence of Margot Robbie's character's actions leading to her eventual, legitimate trouble with Fox News director Robert Ailes, what sympathy can we even talk about? And how, sorry, to react to the mostly self-serving motives of Nicole Kidman's character or the suddenly awakened pseudo-passion of popular anchor Megan Kelly (Theron) about the same harassment just when you need to join in, not start, when Ailes has already done everything to get your career to its peak. In fact, the whole thing reeks of such hypocrisy...

Why doesn't the movie work? Because it's practically worthless. It doesn't hold much interest, the eventfulness is paltry, but the main thing is the worthless storylines. How does Kelly and Trump's impressive timeline of conflict affect the development of the central story? It's unclear. Why does the script offer the viewer an introduction to another pacifier character every few minutes (believe me, there are a lot of them here), whose face is already weathered from memory as the frame changes? I don't get it. Why does the film need a branch of Robbie's character who only looks serenely into the same office (I think you understand which one), roars, and sort of acts on her conscience at the end? It's not clear. To be honest, 'Bombshell' doesn't feel like a piece of fiction at all: I think such a historical reference would feel more comfortable in the format of a documentary with all the interviews of the victims, eyewitnesses, real footage of what happened, etc., etc.

The 'Oscar' for Best Makeup and Hairstyle is justified: Charlize Theron in Megyn Kelly's makeup is unrecognizable, but the resemblance is obvious, and you can see with the naked eye just how much effort has been put into the appearance of all the women flaunting it. In the context of acting, Theron (who even managed to express herself expressively behind layers of makeup) and, oddly enough, the wonderful John Lithgow, who authentically reincarnated as Ailes, were again imposing.

Bombshell is an emotionally stingy, plot-driven movie which, in its pursuit of cash from such an inherently risky undertaking (let me repeat, for me personally this whole harassment chronicle a priori disinclines sympathy), has been a fiasco. No scandal, a splash and nothing more.