First things first: Lukatic is a mediocre director. I enjoyed "21" 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 "21" 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 anti-privacy 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.
Overall, the movie is on part with "21" 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 anti-privacy 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.