We care about Adam. He's a nice, smart, occasionally reckless guy. And he worries about his dad. He's also from the poor end of town, and as such, is dissed by an ambitious, somewhat self-absorbed Ivy League beauty. Right there, we're invested as an audience in the high stakes challenges that await Adam. More than the script calls for? Maybe, but that doesn't mean this isn't an entertaining film. It IS entertaining.
Also, criticism that the plot lacks sufficient tension may be partly due to its lack of gore. There is danger, there is tension. There's not as much bloodshed as we've come to expect from thrillers. This is more Grisham than grisly, and some viewers, sadly, aren't down with that. I think that's a shame, mainly for those viewers.
Every morsel of Ford and Oldman's screen time is tasty, not surprisingly. And the story's inevitable romance is nice for those of us who appreciate that sort of thing.
I thought about the longstanding rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs during this film, and it made we wonder what may have happened behind closed doors at Microsoft and Apple that we haven't yet learned about. Probably nothing as diabolical as what these two rivals seem capable of, but it's an intriguing thought.
The visuals are nice throughout (and okay, that includes Hemsworth!), and the soundtrack is spot-on. I liked it.
Also, criticism that the plot lacks sufficient tension may be partly due to its lack of gore. There is danger, there is tension. There's not as much bloodshed as we've come to expect from thrillers. This is more Grisham than grisly, and some viewers, sadly, aren't down with that. I think that's a shame, mainly for those viewers.
Every morsel of Ford and Oldman's screen time is tasty, not surprisingly. And the story's inevitable romance is nice for those of us who appreciate that sort of thing.
I thought about the longstanding rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs during this film, and it made we wonder what may have happened behind closed doors at Microsoft and Apple that we haven't yet learned about. Probably nothing as diabolical as what these two rivals seem capable of, but it's an intriguing thought.
The visuals are nice throughout (and okay, that includes Hemsworth!), and the soundtrack is spot-on. I liked it.