Review of Paranoia (2013) by Manny C — 10 Sep 2013
The only times you can feel any pleasure from the dull as shit 'thriller' that is Paranoia is when Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman are onscreen together hamming it up like the awesome badasses they are.
Each plays a tech-firm tycoon out to squash the other. Other than that, this lackluster movie has little reason for being. Liam Hemsworth, brother to Thor himself, Chris, is Adam, a young dude who gets between the two, and he's out of his league.
He has a romance with a chick in marketing (Amber Heard, looking good) that has no soul. Director Robert Luketic, who has decent movies (Legally Blonde, 21) and downright awful ones (Killers, The Ugly Truth) has no feel for anything resembling suspense or tension, and the script from Barry L.
Levy and Jason Hall, taken from a novel by Joseph Finder, isn't helping. How Hollywood thinks we'd actually swallow this crap is beyond me. You're not paranoid---Paranoia is horrendous.
This review of Paranoia (2013) was written by Manny C on 10 Sep 2013.
Paranoia has generally received mixed reviews.
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