disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (22 October 2010)

I do not really understand the hype over this movie. I understand (the) Facebook craze as I use it myself but so many good reviews for such a mediocre movie is just surprising. I didn't want to see it at first as I thought that one cannot turn such a contemporary and known story into a good movie but when I heard so many good opinions from people around me I decided to give it a chance. And I left the movie theater really disappointed. Apart from a good idea of the plot being intertwined in two lawsuits and a couple of nice scenes like the row race in the UK (wonderfully filmed) the movie is just impossibly schematic and, let's not be afraid to use this word, boring. I am a fan of Jesse Eisenberg but even he couldn't get over that lame script. And what is with the obligatory 2 hours of a movie nowadays even if the authors do not have that much of a story to tell. What happened to the good old 90-minute movies? Instead of longer movie for my money I would prefer better value for my money.