The film's strengths lie with some tight, fast paced direction. The pace never slackens, which makes trudging through the programming and legal talk a lot more bearable than it should be. The dialogue too is quite neat, and the characterisation, performances and the drama around the court case is reasonably engaging. If this had been a film about anything else, it might have been a triumph.
Unfortunately, does anyone really care about this stuff? Despite the film making plusses, following the dense story is dizzying and pretty exhausting. I'm surprised that audiences are connecting with this enough for it to top the box office in the US. While the journey is not always chore, I'm not sure if it's worthwhile. Also, there's something kind of pretentious about all these genius making billions of dollars and sleeping with super models only to winge and moan about it. Just buy a country, you'll feel better.
6/10
I liked it more. http://www.moviepat.com/?p=613
ReplyDeleteI agree with Patrick about it being nice to see well crafted non-3D movies doing well, but the film felt very motionless, and I don't mean that in a "if a film doesn't have explosions and sex I'm not interested" kind of way, just that Zuckerburg seems to have no real motivation for what he's doing, doesn't seem to care about amassing his fortune or his friends, he just felt very un-human and cold, and not in the delightfully villainous way other onscreen assholes are.
ReplyDeleteGreat performances and good technical skill are all that stop the film being a 3 out of 10, the story (based on REAL people, creating a REAL thing ACTUALLY you use, but isn't entirely REAL) was immaturely handled by the film-makers as they are using real names in their story.