Unexpectedly a very powerful film, sure to be a major contender at the 2011 Oscars.

Rating: 9/10 (28 December 2010)

The social network is a masterpiece in many ways.
It opens with one of the best written scenes in history, the break up of Mark Zuckerberg, the soon to be creator of a 25 billion dollar website (Jesse Eisenberg from Zombieland), who is perfectly cast) with Erika. This leads to a long night of laptop use for Zuckerberg, and in this night, he creates "Facemash", a website that received somewhat 20,000 hits in 2 hours.
It is then where Zuckerberg finds his talent and works on an idea that today is facebook. With his best friend Eduardo (a thrilling and empathic debut performance from newcomer Andrew Garfield) financing, Facebook is born.
As the site becomes more popular and wealthy, and when Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake, don't judge him from his singing career, he's a good actor) joins the team the stakes become higher and betrayal, success and billions of dollars are what is to follow.
Brilliant performances from Eisenberg, Garfield and Timberlake, David Fincher (The Curious case of Benjamin Button)'s masterfully simplistic direction and Aaron Sorkin (creator and screenwriter of TV's The West Wing)'s amazing screenplay make The Social Network truly a film for our times, relevant for many reasons, the biggest being Facebook is probably one of the top 10 words you would use to describe this decade.
It seems that the end of the decade has brought the best films. Just this year we have been privileged with Inception, The ghost writer and this reviewed title just to name a few. I strongly suspect, no, I KNOW that The Social Network will be a huge contender at 2011's Academy Awards.
Also, do not judge this film as garbage simply because it's about facebook. The central points are what wealth and fame can do to people and betrayal of friendship to achieve these goals.
A very good drama.
9/10