Great Idea poor execution

Rating: Null/10 (4 December 2016)

The Social Network has a great story to tell about the rise of facebook and the journey Mark Zuckerberg made to get to where he is. I was very disappointed to find out that it wasn't about this, it was more about the dispute between Zuckerberg and his friend Eduardo Saverin. The story the movie tells about the creation of facebook is, to my dismay, littered with fiction. It felt like the director based the character of Zuckerberg not based on the original but on a slightly different version of Zuckerberg who is a insecure and asinine genius. They portray his character this way by changing a few things about the real story of Zuckerberg. In reality Mark Zuckerberg is none of these things and the portrayal of him in the movie is so far off from reality it hurts. Aside from this flaw the movies main focus as far as plot is not the rise of facebook and the different challenges the team face but the relationship between Mark and Eduardo. In fact the movie is almost entirely about their feud. This makes sense, seeing as how the movie is based off the book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal. A book that tells the story of how facebook was created without any help from the creator of facebook himself Mark Zuckerberg. Instead the author received a lot of help from the friend of Mark's who only funded the project Eduardo. It's frustrating how to think that they would make a movie after such a crappy book but there really isn't much we can do about it now. In conclusion, I wish this movie had never been made 0 stars