Ultimately frustrating and possibly David Fincher's worst movie

Rating: 5/10 (21 January 2015)

Is this a bad movie? Not really, hence the score, but it is frustrating. So yeah this review contains spoilers so look away if necessary. Okay so the twist of the movie is that the corporation CRS actually was just trying to pull an elaborate prank on Micheal Douglas' character. Now the reason this is frustrating is that a large amount of stuff in the movie doesn't make sense within this context. I mean there is one point in the movie where he is in a taxi and they drive into the water and he nearly drowns. So, that means he was in actual danger right? Like lots of people just panic when they drive their car into the water and are unable to escape. If that happened would they just be like oops sorry. Didn't mean for that to happen. Also what happened to the cab driver in that scene? Also I guess at the end when he shoots his brother but his brother is alright implying that their were blanks in the gun. But if you made someone that desperate couldn't that have unintended consequences? I mean what if his gun got knocked away and he got so scared that he beat someone to death? Also when he jumps off the building how the heck would they even know where he would land? Like oops your brother fell two meters left than expected so now he's dead. Also, how the heck did they know he jump. And just generally how did they account for pretty much everything that happened in this movie. I mean when the cab driver picks him up did they not account for the fact that he could take another cab? To be fair David Fincher still does a great job directing the movie and most of the acting is pretty good but i just couldn't stand this script. I think that the score I gave is fair and if you like the movie for the directing and acting and don't think the script is that big of an issue that's fine but for me the movie just didn't work unfortunately.