Way better than it needed to be.

Rating: 9/10 (7 April 2020)

I can only imagine how difficult it must have been to make a movie about the founding of Facebook difficult. Part of that is obviously due to the dramatization and the bending of the truth, but credit is more than due to David Fincher's directing, Aaron Sorkin's screenplay, and the performances given by Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake and just about everyone else. There's a line in Honest Trailers that claims that the movie is so good it makes young millionaires suing each other high stakes. As for the aforementioned bending of the truth, well the movie does it pretty often. Mark Zuckerberg didn't come up with the idea after breaking up with his girlfriend, he wasn't really obsessed with exclusive Harvard clubs, and Sean Parker wasn't a coked out paranoiac. Do watch the film, unless you want to know the real story of Facebook.