Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Haven't we all seen this premise before? Namely, a stranger coming into the lives of a good person (or people), and at first is nice, but soon starts to show some really creepy attributes that eventually spill over into sociopathic actions. Well, actually, I wouldn't mind seeing this premise all over again had it been done with enough fresh new traits and imaginative execution. But "I.T." doesn't contain very much that's original. Although the movie has a high tech theme, even this has been done before in other movies. And don't get me started on the climax, which is so unimaginative and cliched instead of being more creative. The icing on the cake is a concluding sequence what will have you asking, "Is that it?", since it is so unsatisfying. To be fair, the movie is decently made with what couldn't have been a megabudget, and some of the performances are fine (though Pierce Brosnan's acting seems a big constipated at times). But for the most part, the movie doesn't offer enough variety from the hundreds of other times you've seen this same basic story before.

This completely predictable "thriller" stars Pierce Brosnan as Mike Regan - the head of an airline which is about to go public, and James Frecheville as Ed Porter - an IT temp working at Mike's company who so impresses Mike that he brings him into his home to fix the wifi. Yup. That's how this all starts. While he's there, Ed develops a fixation with Mike's daughter Kaitlyn (Stefanie Scott) - which Mike and his wife Rose (Anna Friel) don't like - because Ed's like 11 years older than Kaitlyn and, well, he's a bit creepy. He tries to crash family events, he shows up unannounced where he shouldn't be. Eventually, Mike fires Ed and tells him to stay away. But Ed has hacked into the Regan's "smart home" system, so that he can see and hear everything going on and control all sorts of things from his apartment - which looks a bit like a starship bridge from Star Trek. Eventually, we find out that Ed is a lot creepy, as he takes his revenge against Mike for the way he feels he's been mistreated.Yes, it's very predictable. A lot of it doesn't make sense and doesn't seem particularly well thought out. When Mike hires a guy to "fix" the Ed problem, he talks to him on the phone while lying in his bed. Why doesn't Ed know about it? Doesn't he have the house wired? Shouldn't he have heard? And unless I missed something, Kaitlyn actually kind of liked Ed - so why did Ed target her? I could understand him going after Mike and Rose - but why Kaitlyn? There are a variety of other things that made little sense, but those are the two I remembered most.The movie leads up to one of the most unbelievable confrontations I've ever seen, and then the movie kind of ends with a whimper as all goes back to normal. To be perfectly blunt, this isn't really worth your time. The performances were uneven. There's a bit of a reflection on privacy in this, and it might succeed in making you a bit paranoid if you've gone big time into the whole "smart house" thing. (2/10)

It was very predictable, and had given away the crux within the first 1/5 of the showtime. I find it hard to believe why would someone, the lead character in the movie, be so naive. There are several loose ends and one wonders - why not this, why not that, etc.Though the title was not very intriguing, I fell for the lead actor in the movie and thought it cannot be very bad.

For better or for worse, I.T. combines two archaic recipes from the '90s in order to a cook a dish as rancid as its ingredients. Yes, it was for worse. The "cyber thriller" and the obsessive maniac" were two very formulas which were very popular during the '90s, and they were represented by movies such as The Net, Hackers, Pacific Heights and Single White Female. And, for some reason, the producers of Voltage Pictures thought it was a good idea to resurrect both clichés in a single film, with a tedious and irritating result. The villain is one of those omnipotent hackers controlling everything and instantaneously penetrating any safe system in a matter of seconds; his lair has a dozen of monitors in where his magical operative system practically anticipates his wishes and displays exactly what he's looking for. The only positive thing I can say about this piece of junk is that Pierce Brosnan managed to bring a credible performance despite the horrible screenplay he had to work with. On the opposite, James Frecheville is laughable as the villain, Stefanie Scott is just employed as a pretty face and Anna Friel doesn't have too much to do (or even say) as the mother who keeps herself aside from the situation, until she becomes a hostage during the "exciting" (boring) conclusion. In summary, I.T. doesn't work as a retro tribute, and it doesn't add anything new to the two formulas it destroys; and I wouldn't even recommend it to those people who have never seen any similar films, because there have fortunately been much better things which updated those themes and found fresh and creative twists for this century. For example: the TV series Mr. Robot as regards "cyber thrillers"; and The Gift (2015) for the obsessive maniacs. Both are much better alternatives which achieved what I.T. didn't even make an effort in trying.