Paranoia 2013

The high stakes thriller Paranoia takes us deep behind the scenes of global success to a deadly world of greed and deception. The two most powerful tech billionaires in the world (Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman) are bitter rivals with a complicated past who will stop at nothing to destroy each other. A young superstar (Liam Hemsworth) seduced by unlimited wealth and power falls between them and becomes trapped in the middle of the twists and turns of their lifeanddeath game of corporate espionage. By the time he realizes his life is in danger he is in far too deep and knows far too much for them to let him walk away.

Review

First things first Lukatic is a mediocre director. I enjoyed ∡" and "Legally BLonde" as light entertainment. There's no reason to expect "Paranoia" to be anything else. And it isn't.

Overall the movie is on part with ∡" and that's the best that can be said.

"Paranoia" starts off nicely and builds up to a point where it could go anywhere and in a spectacular way. Sure all those possibilities are predictable but many are also enjoyable. Yet the movie all of a sudden decides to go nowhere.

It stays between a very shallow message against today's social media an antiprivacy warning and an outcome that is thoroughly predictable but not in a nice way.

To me it seems absolutely equal with the big uninteresting flop that "Now You See Me" was. We have the same drive to appear smart and overexplain things in a manner that manages t debunk itself and show that under all the glitter the emperor is naked.

In "Now you See me" the glitter was cheap "wit". Here we have the wasted skills of Oldman and Ford. However I'll take Oldman and Ford any day.