Clever but not as intelligent as it wants to be.

Rating: 6/10 (26 March 2011)

This film is well crafted, well written and better than most movies you will see this year. That being said, it relies on speed of delivery rather than content to dazzle. Facebook, Myspace, Google, Microsoft, Apple, social networking, and the internet in general are all phenomenon that we are currently experiencing. We don't yet know the results or effects. This movie is ambitious in that it is trying to comment "on the fly" as it were. While it's attempt to be topical is admirable, a movie is still a movie. It needs a protagonist and we are certainly not sympathetic to Eisenberg's Zuckerberg. Eduardo Saverin (played by Andrew Garfield) is truly the one character the audience can relate to and sympathize with. The real chronicle of the times is that social networking (facebook, myspace) tried to replace the social strata that exists in reality, but simply ended up imitating it.