. . . in which the film makers apparently thought that their work was done as soon as they completed casting this misfire. Big corporations can destroy the lives of the "little people" (which I think may be tax evader Leona Helmsley's term) by nuisance lawsuits without resorting to corporate hit men. If you have something REALLY important to blab (to take one of the more popular conspiracy theories percolating in the Blogosphere, say "I was Enron's bag man to bribe the U.S. Supreme Court in the Bush vs. Gore case") then sure, some Megacorp might hire a professional to make your "convenient" death look like a bad case of suicide. But the stakes for the business bozos darting around the screen in PARANOIA are NOT convincingly high enough to logically justify all the Whackings ordered at board room level here. I was looking at one of the links to production photographs for this movie, and was shocked to see how many of the pix are "cheesecake" (or is it "beefcake") images of a topless Liam Hemsworth as "Adam." Oh, I get it: they named this character Adam to give him an excuse to be running around in his birthday suit all the time!
Review of Paranoia
