One of the best films of 2010.

Rating: 9/10 (12 January 2011)

The Social Network has achieved the almost impossible,a movie about the creation of a website should be boring but they not only made it interesting, they've made it thrilling.
This purportedly true story about Facebook is primarily a legal drama, mostly focusing on the dispute between Mark Zuckerberg and the other Harvard University students who claimed to have also been contributory in the social networking website's creation. After burning a few more bridges and pissing off his few remaining friends, Zuckerberg finds himself in a litigation nightmare. A script written by Aaron Sorkin, who has created some blisteringly sharp dialogue that will leave you hanging on every word spoken by the outstanding cast. Eisenberg is outstanding and presents the Facebook founder as a socially stunted savant, unable to relate to other people as anything other than a means to some other end, his misogynistic attitudes towards women a particular flaw.
The Social Network has a definite "revenge of the nerds" feel about it, with its oafish jocks, exaltation of hackers and nerd-groupies. The film is also an interesting product of the hyper-fast social world it has helped to create: a biopic about someone still alive and in his mid-20s and relating events that only happened a couple of years ago. Just how much of the story is really true is anyone's guess but it is certainly thought-provoking, and the brilliant script and Eisenberg's performance make it worth seeing in any case. One of the best films of 2010.