Thanks for the memories!

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

One of my all time favorites.

Boring

In this day and age of the internet taking over our lives, this movie seemed like a really good premise. Pierce Brosnan is Mike Regan, owner of a private aircraft firm that is going to try and start up a Uber-type business for private jets. He needs money and his company is going to go public with its stock as long as the SEC approves.When a presentation goes awry because of a computer glitch, a temp employee named Edward fixes the glitch. Mike warms to him and invites the man to his house to help him speed up his internet. Little does he know he has invited the fox into the hen house. When Edward starts to cross the line between employee and friend, Mike cuts him off, then fires him. Upset, Edward hacks Mike's house's security system and takes over control of it. He then starts making life for Mike and his family a living hell. Up to this point, the movie was pretty inventive and imaginative. Then it loses steam. The second half is just a series of overdone action tropes as Mike tries to get Edward out of his life. That was probably the most disappointing thing is how the first half was great and then I was let down. There was a recent episode of the X-Files reboot in which Scully and Mulder are under assault by the "internet" and it was done way better. Had I.T. not gotten lazy in the second half and addressed some real concerns about the invasion of privacy, rather than going for the cheap thrills, it would have been a much better movie. Still it is worth a watch.I was planning to turn my home into a smart home prior to seeing this movie. I think I will just stick to switching on the lights and thermostat myself.

I will be real with you, this is not a 10/10 movie and the director would shake my hand and admit it. This was the typical Netflix n Chill type movie for the more masculine viewer (so not a rom com but a semi-drama semi-thriller). The reason why many are only rating it at 50% rather than the 70% I give it is because they are judging it against movies that actually intended to be 10/10s; this movie was not supposed to be masterfully plot-driven or to grip you at every stage it was supposed to be for you to watch on Netflix while chatting up your girlfriend or bantering with the guys about the nerdy villain or about how the daughter is a b**** and deserved what he did to her or alternatively white knight and say how much you want Mr. ex-James Bond to beat him to a pulp.This was 'by men for men' type of movie so of course the women are plain, what do you think men feel when we watch Rom Coms? All the men are pathetically shallow in them, here the women are because this is for men!Get over yourself with the need for every movie to be perfect. Do you want that the villain isn't partially autistic and psychotic on top of that? Do you want a boring characterisation but amazing storyline? Go read a damn book if you can't appreciate the brilliant acting by that villain! It was a damn good watch and oh my god the antihero hacker was PERFECTION. From the accent to his body language, he was everything that a white-hat hacker is and many less malignant coders will adore how he uses his talents and knowledge to defend the innocent against abuse from black-hat hackers.If you are into coding, this movie is in fact one of the pinnacles of what the difference is between a good and an evil hacker and proves that being sneaky and intelligent does not mean you need to abuse those weaker than you but that you can still fight for a greater good and earn money doing it.

Spoiler ALERT!! i liked the film a lot. I gave it a ten rating because I could see the film unfold in Reality. It is (to me) a warning for people. Nothing is ever (Clear) in real life. There are always little mistakes that could... Well, you should watch this film. Good Work!!!

Based on the plot, I expected this to be a fairly good thriller. I was not ready for the level of disappointment it delivered.The first suspension of disbelief was the voice-over in the first few minutes describing Brosnan's character (an aviation company owner) as 52. Come on, it's Pierce Brosnan! He was 63 when this was released, he looked late fifties in the movie. They should have made him 57-59.Honest, I heard the voice-over and I choked with laughter.But it simply got worse.Brosnan is Irish by birth. His bizarre accent was dreadful. I think he was trying to do a Northern Ireland accent - that part of the United Kingdom north of the border with the Republic of Ireland, but it was a real ham of a performance.Then follows a creepy story ticking all of the boxes for a predictable, by-the-numbers, talented I.T. guy stalker movie.I took issue with the idea that someone in charge of a multi-million dollar aviation corporation could be so careless as to give out his home wireless password so easily and not change it to something else to secure it.When the smart house system acts up, no thinks to pull the cable to the internet router.Why is the I.T. guy using an AC voltage detector to check CAT5 cables? Who was the technical support person employed on this movie? Fire them.The I.T. guy mentions features of the control system and Brosnan tells him they have been disabled for privacy. Hmm, I.T. guy has your home wireless password and knows the smart home has cameras in the control panels. No chance of some mischief then...There's a completely gratuitous scene of the daughter taking a shower. To be honest, they could have cut this entire subplot and it would not have been missed.Even Anna Firel, playing the wife, could have had all of her scenes deleted and it would have made no difference. What was the point of her character? I hope she was paid well.By the time the retribution angle arrived, I had lost all interest and simply sat on to see what else might turn up. All the expected twists turned up including a night time tropical storm which was presumably included to 'heighten tension' during the last scenes. For the rest of the movie, the weather during the day was calm and the nights were without incident. This sudden tempest was another unnecessary addition.Best watched with a group of friends who want a good comedy - a thriller it is not.