22-05-2025
The Six Billion Dollar Man review — a gripping portrait of Julian Assange
'Why don't we just kill this guy?' That's what this gripping and persuasive documentary about Julian Assange alleges Donald Trump asked CIA officials while president in 2017, after Assange's WikiLeaks released a huge amount of data about Vault 7, an extensive CIA hacking programme. They didn't pursue that route, of course, and Assange is now a free man, who attended the world premiere of the film at Cannes, raising his fist to sustained applause after the credits rolled.
Some still believe that Assange's organisation endangered people with its leaks, and that he has acted appallinglytowards women. But the facts are that the charges of sexual assault against two women in Sweden — which had resulted in Assange claiming asylum at the Ecuadorean embassy in London
