brilliantly entertaining and unique

Rating: 9/10 (6 June 2017)

David Fincher has proved that any premise can be made great with the help of a hardworking and ingenious film crew and cast. The miracle Fincher has achieved in this film is the morphing of a concept that could have more easily been turned into a made for T.V. snoozefest painfully catering to a younger audience into a witty and challenging drama.
From my point of view, those who believe that this film is on the side of any of its characters is surely mistaken. Many critical reviews do not seem to be criticizing the film but the film's subjects, when that is honestly not the way to go. The film itself is mostly neutral when portraying its cast of characters, portraying them as the fascinating and flawed beings they truly are. Almost everyone in this movie is, for lack of a better word, kind of a d*ck. Zuckerberg is among film history's most complex characters, an excruciatingly intelligent man with an endless capability of technological genius, but he is also a man who hurts and betrays others, including those closest to him. He is borderline narcissistic in his ways and, yet again I fail to come up with a better word, often comes across as no more than the standard annoying Harvard smartass. Its a film about the forces of evil, friendship, love, destiny, inspiration, greed, business, conflict, and so on and son.
Rapid fire laugh out loud dialogue is constantly exchanged through one of the most well written and ingenious film scripts of all time. Fincher adapts the boundlessly brilliant script in the best way possible by incorporating his fine visual flare and knack for perfectly paced editing. Seriously, I find this to be among the finest edited films of all time. The editing is able to communicate the feelings of chaos and disorientation throughout without giving the viewer a headache, and entertainment is never sacrificed, for Fincher proves that eh can make any situation as engaging as it possibly can be.
Each and every crucial element of cinema is utilized in the best way possible in "The Social Network". Each performance is pitch perfect (Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberlake all provide some of the finest film performances of the past decade), the editing (as I have already stated) is unbearably incredible, the pacing is highly well done, the subject matter is handled in a way that is mature but not at all devoid of humor, the visuals are beautiful, the soundtrack is amazing, the script is among the greatest ever written, and the film functions as one of the most fascinating and complicated character studies I have ever witnessed. The film offers no easy answers and begs for audiences to think about and question the characters' morals, flaws, and capabilities, as well as their own.