Check Check Check Mate: Luketic’s Bland Thriller an Injustice to White Collar Crime
Another bungled disappointment from Robert Luketic arrives in the form of Paranoia, which thankfully sees the director leaving behind Katherine Heigl in exchange for a glossy corporate thriller, though he forgot that it needed to make sense or make an attempt to be interesting. Worse, many are sure to be disappointed with the film’s misleading title, as something equally vague like The Double Cross, The Back Stab, or Insider Trading Snafu would be more apt, since no one ever seems to act very paranoid, and, in fact, the characters presented here couldn’t possibly seem more calculatingly self-assured.
Adam Cassidy (Liam Hemsworth) is a young tech wizard that has been slumming in an entry level position at a powerful company owned by Nick Wyatt (Gary Oldman) one of the two most powerful tech billionaires in Manhattan.
Another bungled disappointment from Robert Luketic arrives in the form of Paranoia, which thankfully sees the director leaving behind Katherine Heigl in exchange for a glossy corporate thriller, though he forgot that it needed to make sense or make an attempt to be interesting. Worse, many are sure to be disappointed with the film’s misleading title, as something equally vague like The Double Cross, The Back Stab, or Insider Trading Snafu would be more apt, since no one ever seems to act very paranoid, and, in fact, the characters presented here couldn’t possibly seem more calculatingly self-assured.
Adam Cassidy (Liam Hemsworth) is a young tech wizard that has been slumming in an entry level position at a powerful company owned by Nick Wyatt (Gary Oldman) one of the two most powerful tech billionaires in Manhattan.
- 8/16/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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