They also expect major
publishers to build «some version into
key known franchises, as well as potentially releasing
various other stand - alone titles» in the «Battle Royale» genre.
While the film touches upon its
various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper
publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low -
key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.