I.T.

source: I.T.

I watched this on Netflix over Christmas break and the first thing that came to my mind after watching was just how far Pierce Brosnan has fallen. I mean this guy played James Bond. In this film, he's reduced to a guy with a scowl on his face that makes him come off looking like a guy who hasn't had a bowel movement in weeks. Add to this his dialogue in the film consists of Brosnan resorting to every "*" derivative known to man. Oh. And did I mention that the acting is deplorable? Anna Friel is wasted here. The story is lame. Editing is horrible. Nothing new here at all. Unless you get your jollies listening to Brosnan's Irish brogue mutter potty-mouth dialogue, pass on this and watch an old Bond entry of his or Remington Steele.

What will you do to make yourself on the top of the game?? For Mike Regan (Pierce Brosnan), he has reached it with the help of the top of the line technology. doing everything for him making him one of the best in his game, but that all has changed when he met Ed Porter, an I.T. consultant for his own company. In a world where technology runs freely, a private man cannot hide himself even if he wants to. In sake of saving his life,his family & everything he owns, he needs to play the game in all of he can to remove the psychotic I.T. consultant he himself first wrongly welcomed. The movie has a very mono chromatic story, quite predictive, and poorly executed. It is like a short story dragged long to become a movie. Even for Pierce Brosnan, who is known for being good into action & mystery movies, and has a long span of success, has poorly executed this movie, or most of the people expect much for him and so also for this movie. But hey, if you're a Pierce Brosnan fan, this will be a tick for your movie list.

I must admit, I did have some expectations, I mean it's Pierce Brosnan come on. The movie itself was a complete disappointment, though. Each and every turn of event could've easily been predicted, the acting was below average. Everything was so clicheic and predictable, it was like one of the Bond movies remade, even copied the structure of those films (1 hour and 20 mins) and with the same style of story, but with worse acting. Brosnan has grown old.. I expect him to soon start filming a series like Bold & Young, where he's just a rich grandpa and that's it. This is probably the worst movie I've seen this year and I even watched a documentary about some Russian Big Foot creature that doesn't exist :).

IT is very much a "by the numbers" thriller. There's nothing on offer here the viewer has, in one form or other, not seen before. Take an executive, add in a deranged IT guy and, of course, a loving family to protect and that's, pretty much it. The acting is fine and, to be fair, Pierce Brosnan, in particular, hands in a very good performance. The action scenes are polished too. Indeed, in many respects, this film ticks most of boxes you would expect. Alas, this is not enough to save this now rather predictable affair from the label or "ordinary". Watch by all means, just don't expect to be thrilled or even a little surprised. Six out of ten from me.

I had high expectations from a former James Bond actor, however in this role Brosnan bored me to death. Predictable, standard, even the accent annoyed me - it just didn't belong. The feminine actors, as well as roles, as plain as it could be. Nothing extraordinary about this film, could be watched on a sad Sunday afternoon. From my side it gets only a 3 - nothing saved this movie from being a cliché and just another title that one checks off the list. The best feature of the film was the house - good taste, hi - tech - nice propaganda for Sony systems, however I would not ever bring a stranger into my house to fix my wi-fi connection and let him in the dark corners of my security system. All in all, it could have been a much worse film, however, the villain saved the movie a little bit by bringing a little bit of unexpected on a few occasions.

This is a bizarre movie -- for reasons few will notice. It's a thriller about a wealthy man who founded and is CEO of a big private jet manufacturing company. Quite rich, Brosnan gets entangled with a deranged computer hacker working as an I.T. temp in his company. It's perhaps a mediocre movie, but I was transfixed by the tale. You see, this wealthy CEO -- seeking to make much more money by taking the company public -- was the GOOD GUY. His employees really liked him, and they had a great working relationship. I can't recall the last movie I watched where a profit-seeking wealthy person was the hero. I kept expecting his fatal capitalist flaw to appear -- uncontrollable greed, yada, yada, yada. It didn't happen. (Yeah, Bruce Wayne was wealthy, but never do you hear him discussing making more money. Just giving his daddy's money away, making more Batman toys -- and living large.) I'm not necessarily recommending the movie to you, but perhaps it's worth seeing JUST for this "man bites dog" reason. It's a reminder that it's not ABSOLUTELY necessary for movie makers to always portray rich people as villains. One thing's for sure -- it won't start a trend in movies. Not a chance.

The unbelievability of this film made it annoying. An IT guy hacks your smart house so you smash up the IT and live in a broken house with no heating/air con, no coffee, no showers and no lights? Why not just cut out that stage, go stay in a hotel for a week and call in the people who installed it? At almost every stage, after the IT guy has gone crazy, the decisions taken by his victims are totally unlikely. The Founder of a million dollar company is probably not going to have the skills to commit burglary, so why does he try? Why, when he's got the advice of a professional does the professional do such a bad job of advising him? Make the victim go more than 40 seconds away from his house while you're breaking in maybe... Making a film totally real would be boring, making a film totally unrealistic does not make it good.

"Privacy isn't a right, it's a privilege." Mike Regan (Brosnan) is a very successful businessman with a loving family. He is just about to make his company go public. When a glitch occurs that threatens everything an I.T. temp named Ed (Frecheville) steps up and saves the day. He and Mike begin a friendship and business partnership, but when Ed starts to overstep things change. Ed takes offense and threatens not only Mike's business but his family as well. This is a movie I wanted to watch because I really like Pierce Brosnan. The more I watched the more I liked the movie itself. The movie is tense and realistic, especially in today's connected world. This movie will make you think twice about how you use technology. That being said, this was almost just a remake of the movie Fear. I liked that one too but they are very similar in tone and feel. Overall, a tense and updated version of Fear, if you liked that one you will love this. I really enjoyed this and recommend it. I give it a B+.

I watched this without knowing anything about it? however i found the film really good and likable, the acting was very good the plot was very good and the only thing id say negative was the scene in the shower with his 17 year old daughter made myself and my wife cringe and turn away, it would of been much better had the daughter of been say 24 & at college or something? but 17 and seeing her do what she did was really uncomfortable for us and should be for any parent, the ending part could of been a lot better the storm that was over the house was Clearly a fake storm as the rain was belting down yet the bushes to the slight left where stood still (Rolls his eyes) apart from them two it was very good i wished the director had included a bit more detail about the USB sticks and that we got more depth about the IT guy rather than the little detail we got, Over all id give it an 7/10 it lost one point for the fake storm which was clearly obvious it was fake but it lost 2 points for the scene in the shower it was really unnecessary by a girl of that age.