The greatest movie ever made..!
How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.
View MoreThe film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
View MoreThe thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
View MoreWell as my title says, the movie could have had potential. I mean, there are tons of really good "infiltration movies" out there. However, I realized quite instantly that this one wouldn't be a "winner", but I still had some expectations. Its a somewhat good cast and once again; the story has potential. But... it fails. The way the story has been filmed is messy, and the story in itself is made so ridiculous that I cannot take the movie seriously. I mean... the story concerns this new mobile solution that would revolutionize the whole market. And... that's okay... but the feeling I get is that this should be a "serious" and "realistic" movie. I mean... I think a movie have to "pick a side"; either its completely fictional, "Minority Report style" (which is a good movie), or it is serious "Departed style". This one seem to want to take some of both. It tries to become this serious thriller that have a modern theme. Sorry, but a completely unrealistic technical solution, almost Sean Connery's James Bond style... I mean, of course a private businessman can control any TV, camera or anything... and of course a tech student can copy/paste fingerprints and anything, just like that! And this while the movie tries to make everything look planned by having people talking completely nonsense technical terms that doesn't even mean anything! And then...the rest of the story is also completely strange! The guy meets a woman... that rejects him. He starts at her company... she still rejects him. They go to a company event... and she suddenly loves him? And this is how the movie goes on... completely nonsense, and it's pretty much going on the whole movie. Sorry. It had potential with a promising story - but they screwed it up completely!And the ending... yeah, it doesn't get better. This guy wants to present his product in front of a big tech company and does a lousy job, and is therefore rejected. The manager tells him to infiltrate a competitor. So they fix the guy a job with the competitor, where the guy just walks in, and presents a product like a god (nice coincidence right?). And you can guess from the start what happens - he falls in love with a woman at the competitor company, and the competitor himself seem like a good guy. So how is he going to get himself out of this one? He lies to his new love, his new employer and commit several crimes, trying to steal a top secret technical device funded by the government... ...just to realize its a setup and both the tech company managers are "bad guys". But this student tech guy is a genius and fools them both, working with FBI in secret... gets them arrested (and does not get himself arrested, as he helped FBI out...). And then he starts a tech company on his own, because "there are no shortcuts to success" (like looking for a job at someone elses company?)! And yeah, he gets the girl... even though he hacked her computer, lied to her, stole her phone and used her identity to steal a top secret government property. But... yeah, that's nothing right? Well... this one didn't make sense at all. Sorry to say!
View MoreParanoia means thinking that everyone is against you, causing you to look around every corner for someone to attack you or betray you. That kind of story can build up some real tension in a movie. The film called "Paranoia" (PG-13, 1:46) gets that formula backwards and actually extinguishes tension. This movie shows us all the reasons that the main character SHOULD be paranoid, but he doesn't know what's happening behind the scenes, so instead of being paranoid, he's just oblivious.Liam Hemsworth is Adam Cassidy, a cocky and ambitious young technology developer who is forced by his boss (Gary Oldman) to steal corporate secrets from a rival technology company CEO (Harrison Ford). Embeth Davidtz does well as a woman who teaches Adam the art of corporate espionage, while Richard Dreyfuss' talents are wasted in the role of Adam's ailing father.Let's see this movie has some great shots of New York City! That's about the best thing I can say about "Paranoia". Unfortunately, those beauty shots are few and far between, much like the moments of real tension in the story. And those moments are connected by dialog and plot points that range from lame to silly to ridiculous. Of course, it would've helped if more members of the cast could actually act.There are a couple half-way decent twists near the end of the movie, but by then, I was more interested in what time it was than what was going to happen to these characters. It's almost as if there were a conspiracy to put out a movie with a cool title and a few great actors, then distribute an interesting trailer, all to get ME into the theater to waste my time and money.Maybe that's just my paranoia talking.Or not. "Paranoia" gets a "D".
View MoreThat Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Embeth Davitz and Richard Dreyfuss were associated with this exquisite train wreck is utterly unbelievable. Shame on them for (as Comic Book Guy would say) "The worst movie ever..."I don't really know how to describe this thing that masquerades as entertainment. It's like someone saying "Tell me about Mussolini." - It'd take half an hour to get your thoughts organized and kick off with appropriate criticisms. Suffice is to say:- 1) Don't even think of paying money to see it. 2) Don't waste your time watching it on TV. 3) If it's playing at your local cinema - cross the road, lest someone sees you and thinks you're about to hand over cash to watch it. It was boring on a biblical scale. It was scrappy, poorly acted, had an appalling screenplay. It could be used by a film school as an example of how not to make a movie.Final words:- Yeuch, Ugh, Bleeer, Groan, Hiss and finally... Vomit.
View MoreAdam Cassidy (Liam Hemsworth) gets a chance to pitch to tech titan Nicolas Wyatt (Gary Oldman). It doesn't go well and his entire team is fired. He takes the company card and spend the rest of his budget on a night at a high end club with his team. He sleeps with Emma Jennings (Amber Heard). Wyatt takes his indiscretion with the company card to blackmail him into a corporate spy against Wyatt's competitor and former mentor Jock Goddard (Harrison Ford). He discovers that Emma works PR for Goddard. FBI Agent Gamble (Josh Holloway) warns him of Wyatt's darker operations. Adam's father (Richard Dreyfuss) is concerned but Wyatt threatens to harm his father.This is pretty boring. Liam Hemsworth can't seem to project the required fear and intensity. Oldman shows flashes of intensity but he's the only one. There is a lack of edginess. Even the high tech subject matter feels old and dated. Instead of filming in 2012, this movie could have been done 5 years before that. The directions from Robert Luketic lack any energy. It feels stale. Other than a few passable rom-coms, he has done nothing particularly good. This is a minor failure considering the acting power involved in this movie. The plot tries to ramp up the action but it doesn't fit the story. Once they start waving guns around and running people over, the whole concede of a tech company controlling everything falls apart. Adam can't compete with their vast tech resources but put a gun in his hand and he's more powerful than Wyatt. It's not a good move to threaten him with guns and violence. The story should be more imaginative.
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