I.T. (2016)
Mike Regan is a successful, self-made man who has it all: a gorgeous wife, a beautiful teenage daughter and a sleek, state-of-the-art “smart home”. But he soon finds himself in a deadly, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse when his I.T. consultant, Ed, starts using his skills to stalk Mike’s daughter and endanger his family, his business, and his life. In a world where there is no privacy, and personal secrets can go viral by the click of a mouse, Mike needs to rely on his old connections to defeat a new kind of nemesis.
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Thanks for the memories!
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
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.
There seems to be a pattern with Netflix original's which can be delineated as follows. 1. A reasonably interesting premise. 2. The opening half an hour where the premise is established. 3 The rest of the film which turns out to be a bit rubbish, causing one to enquire, is this what most film's would be like without the likes of Spielberg, Cameron, or any director for that matter who would take a reasonable idea and makes it interesting, different or subtle. This Netflix original follows such a pattern. Despite some early pertinent implications regarding the use of modern technology it quickly sheds the potential to be fresh or distinctive instead wrapping itself in the generic thriller blanket and becoming a one dimensional pantomime far too easily. Character exploration is flushed in favour of a predictable prosaic snore fest.
Sometimes you have to wonder why some thrillers are being made the exact same way over and over again. Yes this has the added "Big Brother" (who's a crazy person and not related by blood) theme going, but other than that, the clichés are running wild. And not necessarily in a good way. There are strings to this and confused feelings that could have been explored (private taping) more deeply - no pun intended.But the movie opts for the easy, "suspensful" way out. The warning signs are there early and while Pierce Brosnan himself is always able to come off as likable, his character seems to be very oblivious to say the least. It could have been way easier and logic alone would have prevented most of what transpires ... but then again, we wouldn't have this movie ... wait that wouldn't have been that bad now ...
Mike Regan has everything, a beautiful family and a top of the line smart house. The company he owns is on the verge of changing flight leasing forever. That is, until the relationship with his I.T. adviser turns nasty. after arriving to the house unannounced, and abruptly told to leave by Mike, this leads to a change in personality of the adviser, so much to the point where his teenage daughter is being stalked and his family is under attack through every technological factor of their lives.it's like being back in 1993 again....I could watch Pierce Brosnan do anything, if there was a Blu Ray release of Pierce reading the dictionary.....A, I would buy it and it's 25 sequels.I knew I wasn't going to get the best cinematic experience, this coming from the man who single handed destroyed the Die Hard franchise, but what drew me to the film was of course Brosnan, but the fact that it harks back to those 'nice people turn psycho' films that were rife in the early nineties, thanks to Fatal Attraction, and the majority of Michael Douglas' output from 1987-1996.This has more in common with 1996's Fear, where Marky Mark got really funky with Reese Witherspoon.It's nothing new, Brosnan is married to Anna Friel, he has the perfect life, a wonderful daughter, and a new guy in the company who seems too good to be true.And like The Cable Guy, Mike says something that instantly makes our antagonist think they are best friends, and when he is rejected, that's when the obligatory stalking, and voyeurism begins.So for the final third, it's Brosnan on a mission to save his family, and it's all over before you can say 'there's an Unlawful Entry in Pacific Heights, by a Single White female'.It's completely stuck in the nineties, but I've always has a weakness for these types of thrillers, and it filled a guilty pleasure of a gap,