The art of tension is creating high stakes, and then dancing on the edge of disaster until the climax.
When the audience is cringing at the plethora of ridiculous scenarios spewed onto the screen in front of them, tension is not achieved.
The basic premiss is not too bad. We've seen these virus films before, and the potential is there for a couple of programmer spods to do effective battle with a virus. But you have to truly research the subject, and you might realize computers can't fire guns, sign cheques, take showers... any of which would have not seemed out of place in this dross.
There is little grace in the action. They pull over to have domestic conversations. Insert irregular and obtrusive dialogue. We might as well put a colour coded bar on to denote main and subplots.
All that said, if you are the kind of person who doesn't know how to wind up your sundial, then you'll probably love this film.
When the audience is cringing at the plethora of ridiculous scenarios spewed onto the screen in front of them, tension is not achieved.
The basic premiss is not too bad. We've seen these virus films before, and the potential is there for a couple of programmer spods to do effective battle with a virus. But you have to truly research the subject, and you might realize computers can't fire guns, sign cheques, take showers... any of which would have not seemed out of place in this dross.
There is little grace in the action. They pull over to have domestic conversations. Insert irregular and obtrusive dialogue. We might as well put a colour coded bar on to denote main and subplots.
All that said, if you are the kind of person who doesn't know how to wind up your sundial, then you'll probably love this film.