The Whistleblower (Larysa Kondracki, 2010)

This is an earnest account of real-life events in '90s Bosnia, where a female employee of an American private security contractor given a policing mandate over the war-torn land discovers that her colleagues are complicit in  trafficking young women for prostitution. She subsequently finds her attempts to expose them are slighted and blocked by local gangsters, the police and her employers alike.

It's inevitable that a relatively non-histrionic tract for such a worthy cause will earn some critical dispensation, and there's a reasonable verisimilitude to the events, even if Rachel Weisz, while an able enough actress, is somewhat too Famous Fivey to convince fully in the role of the determined crusader. On the downside, it's too flat to sustain interest though tension or stand-out dialogue, and while the Balkans are without a doubt rife with institutionalised corruption and scummy gangsters, neither aspect rises above the complexity of the Eastern European villain stereotype at any point.

So it might as well have been a documentary, though that would have meant even fewer members of the public discovering that the real company, DynCorp, on whose thorough rottenness the story is based, is in fact still doing very nicely for itself in other troublespots around the world.

5/10