A Brilliant Entertaining Look at the Facebook Success!

Rating: 9/10 (13 July 2013)

Jesse Eisenberg earned a well-deserved Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in playing Mark Zuckerberg (the genius behind Facebook). This film recounts the history and the court case against him. The film flashes back between the depositions and the real life accounts. The supporting cast is first rate and the writing is nearly perfect. Justin Timberlake is fantastic as Sean Parker, the Napster genius, who mentors the young college students behind Facebook. Jesse's Mark isn't a likable character at times. Mark comes across as a jerk and obsessed with Facebook's success. The Harvard students are just like everybody else. We see Mark move to Silicon Valley where he rents a house across the street from Sean Parker. We see how Mark screws his best friend and business partner, Eduardo, who is a likable character torn between his devotion to Facebook and reality. The cast is first rate and I can see why this film got several accolades.