The 452nd review of a film about someone who now has a piece of all of us

Rating: 9/10 (4 March 2011)

Difficult to add to everything that's been written so I'll attack this obliquely: Aaron Sorkin's script drives the actors and the story and it's a very well-written script. I've read it and it does have a sense or urgency and discovery straight off the page which translates very well into a fascinating and hyper-realistic version of the truth.
If you didn't already know, the film charts the rise of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard and his journey from dorm geek to billionaire and the subject of countless law suits.
If you are one of the few people who do not use Facebook then this film will have less of an impact on you, that's for sure, but I think that the inter-relationship between Zuckerberg, his initial partner Edouardo Saverin and their nemeses 'The Winklevi' is fascinating.
My favorite parts of the movie are where people wrongly under-estimate Zuckerberg and he surprises them, closely followed by the Winklevi trip to Larry Summers' office which doesn't end quite as they expected.
9 out of 10.