The Whistleblower is a splashy potboiler which throws a straight-laced Chinese expatriate into a conspiracy crammed with elements from airport paperbacks and 1990s Hollywood thrillers. With a reported $40 million budget, it’s the biggest Chinese-Australian co-production to date and the latest attempt to make a partially Chinese film with global appeal (roughly half of the dialogue is in rather awkward English). Shifting gears following several massively successful romantic-comedies, director Xue Xiaolu takes a big swing at the thriller genre by packing in enough intrigue and action for two movies, but the plot develops in such a preposterous manner that it’s never truly engrossing.Despite the promise of an international thriller pairing popular stars Lei Jiayin and Tang Wei, The Whistleblower failed to make much noise over its December 6 domestic opening weekend, grossing a tepid $4.3 million. Indeed, local audiences may have come to prefer prestige to slick packaging, as it was handily beaten by Diao Yinan’s comparatively opaque festival favourite The Wild Goose Lake. Although it’s receiving a simultaneous overseas theatrical release, this is the type of content that is now the domain of streaming platforms — which at least means The Whistleblower should attract some foreign viewers when it hits the small screen.The Whistleblower 2021 Full Movie Download
Our everyman hero is Mark (Lei), a placid, happily married executive with a major Australian energy company that wants to tap into the Chinese market. Following a gas explosion at its test facility in Africa reportedly caused by an earthquake, Mark is tasked with running damage limitation at a hospitality activity for a visiting Chinese coal company where he unexpectedly reconnects with former lover Siliang (Tang). Now trapped in a loveless marriage to the CEO of the Chinese company, Siliang seduces Mark into a hotel room tryst.