Fun for about 2 minutes, just like Facebook

Rating: 1/10 (9 October 2011)

Here we have Jesse Eisenberg whose rendering of genius is to talk really fast in hurried, clipped vocalizations. Fine. You know what, it's better than Matt Damon saying, "How do you like them Apples?" So Jesse Eisenberg's acting is annoying. But that alone only warrants going down to a 6 or 7, how have we gone down to a 1? Because, this movie goes beyond being overrated. It's not just overrated, it's something like ordering a $100 dessert at the best restaurant in America and being served an empty dish save for a solitary blue skittle on it... And all this after reading in the NYT that this restaurant had the best desserts in NYC. I think any half-wit could see what is really going on. This pile of junk is being promoted by the mass media for some godforsaken reason that speculating upon would have me labeled a paranoid schizophrenic.
So I won't speculate on why the media fawned over this strangely moronic film as if it somehow foretold the second coming of Christ. What I will say is that this movie is disingenuous crap that is filled with clichés, racial stereotypes, bigotry, and elaborately staged scenes of sheer human idiocy surpassed only by Jackass 3.5.
This movie warranted more than a 1, it's really a reaction to the hype, the hype which is absurd at best, and criminal at worst.
It's actually quite funny, the way all absurdly overblown Hollywood movies are.