Box Office Flop or Blockbuster 2020? - Bombshell

More the question is the miniseries The Loudest Voice better than movie Bombshell? Also is it a Box Office Flop or Blockbuster?

Coming months after The Loudest Voice aired on Showtime, Bombshell is screening in Australia this weekend for some limited previews.

It opened in the US a wee bit before Christmas so again Australia is getting a film with a fair bit of Australian home grown talent involved, late.

Disappointing when two of the three main roles in the film are played by well liked Australian leads. They are also leading the way with SAG, BAFTA and Critics Choice Movie Awards nominees.

Anyone to the questions above, better than The Loudest Voice, no, The Loudest Voice over seven episodes was allowed more time with the subject, therefore exploring the vile Aisles over a longer time frame. The film lacks history of Fox News rise to number one cable news network. Theron, Robbie and Kidman are all incredible, however Naomi Watts as Gretchen Carlson in the Showtime series was also outstanding.



Is it a blockbuster or flop at the box office? Sadly it's a massive flop, only generating over 28 million thus far at the US box office, this has to be disappointing.

Sadly Americans clearly are over Fox News bashing. Even though the station deserves all the criticism it gets, it seems people are turned off by the way the women are treated in the film and reliving the vile ways of Roger Aisles and Bill O'Reilly. Both who got significant pay outs after they were fired by the Murdoch's. So it was a bittersweet win for the women.

The cast in the film is extremely impressive, Margot Robbie is really outstanding, Theron looked exactly like Megyn Kelly, not only looking like her, but sounding identical to her.

I enjoyed the film (despite knowing how it would all play out) whilst enjoying all the wonderful women slay against Roger. Also the big question, who played Roger better Russell Crowe (recent Golden Globe winner) or John Lithgow? To me it was Russell Crowe hands down.

Sadly Bombshell suffers from bad timing, if The Loudest Voice wasn't such a recent TV smash, then maybe this would be bigger.

Still a good film, an important film, so men, women out there, if you see poor behaviour at work, report it, speak out, don't let powerful evil men (or sometimes ladies, generally men though, do better guys) get away with it.

3 Stars.