No matter how many red hot issues this movie throws into the pot..... (corrosive, divisivepolitics, sexual objectification of women, the power of media to manipulate opinion)........at its very heart, it's a horror movie.
A horror movie featuring two monsters.......one center stage, the Jabba-The-Hut Fox news chief, Roger Ailes.......and an off-stage goblin, the about-to-be-nominated candidate, Donald Trump.
And you can't do a modern horror movie unless you populate it with a bevy of beautiful women to serve up as potential monster-fodder........
'Bombshell' more than delivers the goods here........not one, not two, but three stunning blondes (Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie)......all of them at the mercy of the corpulent, corrupt, craven Ailes (played superbly at his glorious upper-balcony range by John Lithgow).
As they always say on the horror movie posters......"Who will survive?!! And what will be left of them?!!!
The good news........the news babes do survive......and Roger Ailes loses his powerful position and later does all humanity a great favor by dying.
But of course every horror movie these days wants to leave you feeling a sense of overwhelming dread, of worse things yet to come.......
That queasy ending is already built into this story.........if you consider that Trump remains alive and well, busily destroying the country and world.
Which makes "Bombshell" a first class fight flick. 4 stars (****)
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