It’s not just watchable, it’s addictive, much like the topic
it’s about. Aaron Sorkin doesn’t need to
be called a genius or one of the great American script-writers by me to feel
good about himself, but, damn. This is a
film about a website, without a single action sequence of any relevance
contained, and a shit-ton of geek-speak.
And the film is riveting.
Falling somewhere between “a tad” and “highly”
fictionalized, Sorkin’s script (and David Fincher’s direction – spot on and
claustrophobic) shows the nasty underbelly of the creation of Facebook with all
its flaws. Jesse Eisenberg’s
rightly-lauded turn as “Mark Zuckerberg” (there’s quite a bit of creative
license going on here; not at much as “Abe Lincoln, Vampire Hunter”, but
enough) is the glue that holds the film together, with more one-liners and
intelligent-rambling diatribes than can be isolated. But the support cast is excellent, and Andrew
Garfield’s “Don’t *fish* eat other *fish*” line is still the most quotable. Heck, I’ll even give kudos to Justin
Timberlake for playing a shady, entrepreneurial prick… maybe a little *too*
well.
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