Dishonest to the last frame.

Rating: 6/10 (25 October 2010)

This film is so desperate to sex up the life of a code-nerd with Asperger syndrome and ram home its banal theme (the man who created Facebook has no friends) that the truth, complexity, and to my mind, fascinating aspects of the real story gets thrown under the onrushing bus of one dimensional fiction. It's a hit job on a pack of real human beings and their motivations. Tonally, thematically and factually dishonest to the last frame. Good music though, and Eisenberg deserves the praise he's getting.
The very source of this film is suspect. The book it's taken from was solely the revenge creation of Eduardo Saverin who approached the author after Saverin felt he had been jilted by Zuckerberg. The book was a revenge hit that left out facts, defamed people and made no attempt to interview any other parties involved in the matter. It was considered a joke and was never taken seriously by either the tech-crowd or the press. Now the movie hits and has Saverin being the good guy and Sean Parker - who actually helped Facebook grow into what it is today and is still a behind the scenes consultant, not to mention one of the most influential coders of our time - as the bad guy.
I don't think Sorkin or Fincher have any clue about the code-monkeys who have changed their world forever, and if they do... they certainly don't seem to care enough to make real, complicated, ambitious art about them.