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Rating: 8/10 (22 May 2011)

I took a while to write this review because, for one, I was hoping to be original; I watched the movie three times since its release. I looked up the basics such as the writer and the director's credentials; they have excellent credentials and that certainly explains in part why I liked the movie each time I watched it.
The characters, though not always and certainly not rigorously true to the people they portray, are very interesting to watch and to hear; the Zuckerberg-Saverin dynamic was compelling. Eisenberg brought the right character DNA and even if I seem to have seen that personality in his depiction of James Brennan in the movie 'Adventureland', he nevertheless played Zuckerberg as the perfect irksome individual we all wish we sometimes could be. The scenes having to do with the deposition were my favourites; Fincher's interposition of the deposition to contextualize the events worked extremely well. That process, when applied in the right measure, tends to spice up the story and control its pace, in my opinion; we can all agree the pace was just right and the 'timeline hopping' worked quite well.
The whole cast was elucubrating on queue; or if you prefer, everyone's timing was impeccable. The book "The Accidental Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich could not have provided a better basis for the master Aaron Sorkin to write his screenplay. I'm now a fan of Mezrich; to be more accurate, I was before and did not know it.