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best movie i've ever seen.

A different way of telling a story

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

It is often said that movie studios have an employee who can summarize a screenplay in one sentence for the executives, so they have an idea of the story. It could not have been hard to do this with this movie: put The Firm, The Net and The Conversation in a blender, and you get Paranoia. Mixing a couple of old movies together can often lead to a refreshing new dish if you know which elements can make a good combination, and what to add yourself (it's what J.J. Abrams does all the time). However, here the writers have forgotten to give their movie a face of its own, and to make their screenplay leak-proof. The reason this film made it to the cinemas has undoubtedly got to do with all the big names in the cast, which makes you wonder how they got to say yes to this screenplay in the first place (although a big paycheck for a brief uncomplicated shoot probably goes a long way, and hauling in one A-lister often attracts the others as well). Clichés and predictability abound, from the debt-ridden young protagonist with a sick father (cigarettes, emphysema, cautionary tale) who gets access to the rich life and spontaneously forgets his friends, to the girl playing hard to get who becomes surprisingly docile after hearing one sad sob story. Then there are the evil henchman and the FBI agent who warns the protagonist with scary pictures of earlier victims, so in short, this movie is one big collections of tropes where you can even see the 'surprise twist' and the 'twist on top of the twist' coming from a mile away. Now some amount of predictability doesn't have to be an insurmountable problem if the story in itself is solid and intriguing, and if the cast is good. But the screenwriters didn't seem terribly preoccupied with things like logic and plausibility either. Are we supposed to believe that Liam Hemsworth just happens to have a one-night-stand with the girl who later becomes his target for industrial espionage? Any good screenwriter would have made sure that wasn't coincidence. Or that the solution to a problem would require some thinking rather than just presenting itself in a news bulletin. It gets really ridiculous when Hemsworth himself can apparently change super secret data that gives him access to a super secret vault with just a cellphone and a finger print. Or when the evil henchman thinks that he can get Hemsworth to climb into the plastic-lined trunk of his car inside a public garage with spectators all around. As said, the great cast seems wasted on this material, but they also provide the movie's sparse highlights. The confrontations between heavyweights Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford are satisfying, and it is pretty nice to see Oldman playing a British person in an American movie, and Ford without lots of hair for a change. Liam Hemsworth is adequate enough in the main role, but he is outshined by either Oldman or Ford as soon as they are in the room with him, let alone both (let's just say it is probably for the best that his brother Chris got to be Thor). But there are plenty of missed opportunities here too: Richard Dreyfuss plays the sick old dad, who gets nothing better to do than be sick and old. He could have been put to some good use, but his only role in the movie is to serve as motivation for his son. Josh Holloway (of Lost fame) gets way too little to do as the FBI man, and Embeth Davidtz is downright squandered in a role that could have been much more intriguing, especially since her character plays a brief but crucial part in the finale. I couldn't escape the feeling that some of her scenes may have been cut to get the running time below 2 hours.Director Robert Luketic is mostly known for his comedies with a romantic edge (Legally Blond, Killers) but he knows how to make a thriller look slick. That makes Paranoia at least watchable until the end, but it is really a shame that he didn't have a more solid screenplay. Although we can't disregard the possibility that some studio editing removed most of the character scenes that would have made great use of a stellar cast. A missed opportunity, but not a terribly boring one.

This is basically a remake of Caprice (1967) with Doris Day and Richard Harris. Whoever wrote it should be ashamed they lifted the plot from a previous film. I have not read the novel by Joseph Finder so I do not know how much of it was possibly inspired by Caprice, but certainly the premise of Paranoia is the same. Sort of a rip-off in my opinion.I thought it was boring and full of clichés. Poor acting, though Ford and Oldman do okay, but the others, both main characters played by Liam Hemsworth and Amber Heard are very poor IMO.Air Force One was a much better film featuring Oldham and Ford, both fine actors.

I've watched this flick more than once and i thought it would be just as enjoyable watching it again...i was wrong.The plot can seem confusing, but if you stick with the movie from beginning to end and concentrate on what is going on it makes sense and it becomes very intriguing, while watching this the verse comes to mind "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose your soul?", he has the nice posh apartment that they give him, but they're watching him via hidden cameras the whole time and they basically own him, this is not how a company is supposed to be, you're supposed to simply be an employer/employee and that's it, but this company is more than that - they're criminals, also the crap that he is saying at the start of the film about college and good grades not working in life anymore - shouldn't be taken seriously. This is not the type of cine that is fun to watch more than once.

When your employees show you the characteristics of the product development, you sent him to be a business agent. Although all need bold but cautious, but it is obviously two very different type. For a first glance at the bottom of the staff, how do you make sure that he is a man who can be a business agent? Not to mention this he is feel angry when the boss just brew a cup of tea in his talk, how do you determine he will swallow, quietly completed the task of espionage.And this young man, after being expelled, incredibly still flagrant use research and development funds to eating and drinking, even if you do a cash and then go out to play. You were designated as espionage materials. (Since being fired, how to use the money in the research and development account, if this is not a bug, it must be a conspiracy.)Although amber heard the face change trend, but it is still a beauty, but the clever woman, just in the pub find someone to go to bed. For a woman who wants to do something in a man's world, such a behavior is not understandable. Only the people on the other side of the river to go to bed is not looking for trouble? The poor people will get entangled more. If that she make sex with people in order to make herself up, maybe more in line with the high family expectations, the pressure of female white- collar identity.On the one hand, Wyatt send his best creative talent to the rival as commercial spy; On the other hand , Goddard use truly confidential as bait to tell opponents to bait to lure the enemy. Is too dangerous, can not change a fake it? If this fails, but it really is lose the bait along with the fish.