Good movie, just overpraised

Rating: 7/10 (17 February 2011)

When I first saw the trailer to this in theater, I thought it was ridiculous and stupid. Like they are really running out of ideas, but to some degree it beat my expectation. I personally didn't think it was a masterpiece like some critics claim, but David Fincher did a very good job with what he had. The plot is basically about college students at each others throat for a idea a site that is worth billions. Now Jesse Eisenberg has been getting a lot of credit for his portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg and for the most part he did a pretty good job, but I didn't find it outstanding or anything like that. I mean he played his role very well but didn't think it was anything special or anything like that, his character just had one note. But besides that he did nail the character very well. Andrew Garfield did a really good job as well with his character and showed a lot of emotional depth. In fact the acting and dialogue of this movie is almost flawless. Now there maybe many viewers that may not enjoy this movie as much, I personally thought it was pretty good though, with the bickering, backstabbing, betrayal, and greed that lead to making facebook. And shockingly Justin Timberlake put on a great performance. Who knew that guy could actually act. But he was probably just playing himself. Just not a amazing awesome movie that some critics claim it to be, I mostly liked the visual style of it all. Again the best part about this movie is the performance and the sharp dialogue. And I know this movie is about how facebook came about, but it wouldn't have hurt to dove into the mind of Zuckerberg more and more development. The film just didn't grab my interest, it didn't really have a good start but got my attention a bit during the middle and started to lose it when it got near the end. This really isn't a bad film, it has good camera techniques to go with some of the positive aspect of the film I named. But the topic at hand just isn't interesting, and didn't feel all that compelling.
7.4/10