Too much of everything

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This movie is the most technically accurate computer science / network security film i have ever seen in my life! Whether you are in the tech field or just interested in it, you will definitely learn A LOT from this movie!If you don't know anything about computers or are not interested in learning how computer networking really works, then you probably won't enjoy this movie.Anyone who rated this movie bad, clearly did not understand a single line in this movie. And was clearly looking for a James bond, highly unrealistic action or entertainment film.To those people, i say... "grow up!" "Read a book for once, or google something real if books are too hard to understand as well!" "Join the real world, and get out of your unrealistic entertainment dependency heads!" "Get a real job that challenges your mind, and stop bitching about things that challenge it for you!"

Even the story is quite slow but the movie does makes a lot of sense to computer science student, specially interested in doing hacking kind of stuff. The governments are using checking algorithms and hackers being curious or willingly to get into those and this is where a lot of innocent people get into trouble, even a government experiment like this one can cost some people a lot. Exposing things like shepherd can cost a lot of brilliant people their lives or some times mental abnormality due to the torture of governments agents. I like the idea" information is everybody's right and every should know the things they are being indulged in"

For me Algorithm gets two stars for effort. They got it made. However the problems begin from the very first scene. An interrogation scene like all other interrogation scenes. Containing exhausted lines of dialogue, and the clichéd good cop bad cop routine. It never really recovers from there. The main character is arrogant, and acts superior to others. He is proud that he has an almost empty life. In any other film he would be a loser. Sadly in this film he's supposed to be the hero. He provides endless exposition through voice over. I wrongly assumed it would stop in the opening act. Unfortunately the voice over is constant throughout. This reminded me of Robert McKee's rant from the film Adaptation. Voice over is sloppy writing. Algorithm feels like a film where the director is challenging the audience not to like it. It has a repetitive humdrum music score. The beat stays the same even when the steaks have been raised. The cinematography is bland, with boring beige colours and limited use of light. The director would rather the audience engage with the issues the film raises rather than making something entertaining. The problem with this philosophy is that many mainstream films can do both. Algorithm is a Bourne Identity film with all the fun sucked out of it. Just because it's possible to watch it on-line for free, doesn't mean you should.

I'm a technogeek, computer nerd, and lover of techno thrillers. So I understood the themes and message of this film. But it was done so poorly that I don't know if I'm just disappointed or confused as to why the movie was even released.About 30 minutes in, I started wondering if it was actually a cheesy parody of a "hacker" film. The dialog is poorly written and delivered with some of the worst acting I've ever seen. I felt like I was watching the product of a high school introductory film class. The cinematography showed promise with some beautiful shots, but then degraded into very questionable angles and layouts. There's a scene where we get to stare at the back of the head of the main character for an oddly long period of time. I wondered why the director didn't have the cameraman just swing around to his front.There were almost believable technical aspects of some scenes, but for a "hacker" movie with its overriding theme of "the NSA is watching everything", some of the technology in play should have been focused on more.In light of the Snowden revelations, and some other stuff that was later revealed to have gone on in the past decade or two, the premise of this film could have resulted in a great product. It's really a shame that the movie was so badly written, poorly acted, and shot so oddly.