Paranoia (2013)
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 74
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 71
Clichéd and unoriginal, Paranoia is a middling techno-thriller with indifferent performances and a shortage of thrills.
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 23
Clichéd and unoriginal, Paranoia is a middling techno-thriller with indifferent performances and a shortage of thrills.
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Movie Info
In this high-stakes thriller, Adam Cassidy (Liam Hemsworth) is a regular guy trying to get ahead in his entry-level job at Wyatt Corporation. But after one costly mistake, Adam's ruthless CEO, Nicholas Wyatt (Gary Oldman), forces him to spy on corporate rival, Jock Goddard (Harrison Ford), Wyatt's old mentor. Adam soon finds himself occupying the corner office and living the life of his dreams. However, behind the scenes, he is simply a pawn in Wyatt's corporate game and realizes he must
Cast
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Liam Hemsworth
Adam Cassidy -
Gary Oldman
Nicholas Wyatt -
Harrison Ford
Jock Goddard -
Amber Heard
Emma Jennings -
Lucas Till
Kevin -
Embeth Davidtz
Dr. Judith Bolton -
Julian McMahon
Miles Meechum -
Josh Holloway
Agent Gamble -
Richard Dreyfuss
Frank Cassidy -
Angela Sarafyan
Allison
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All Critics (74) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (71)
In a movie about a new generation's hunger to topple the old guard, pretty boy Hemsworth is outclassed by his veteran costars, who get more mileage from baring their teeth than he does baring his chest.
Top CriticThe movie doesn't make a whole lot of sense and, when it does, it would be better off not doing so.
Fixates on the perils and panic of our modern surveillance culture while itself proving to be borderline unwatchable.
You're not paranoid -- it really is bad.
"Paranoia" is too sloppy and slack to inspire tension.
Paranoia? More like déjà vu.
This is a tedious turkey of the first order. As well as being supremely dull, the film does no favours for feminism - or what's left of it - as far as film roles go.
Excruciating dialogue is only the tip of the iceberg of this film's dunderheadedness, but it's the sin that keeps on giving throughout the way too many 108 painful minutes it takes to get through it.
Would have been fine as a simple, slickly-produced TV movie, but with Ford and Oldman in the cast it can't be considered anything but a big-screen letdown.
Answers the question nobody was asking: what if the director of Legally Blonde remade The Conversation?
Aussie director Robert Luketic's clever fingerprints are all over the film, with its dictating pace, well maintained tension - but above all, his flair for casti
A proficient thriller but there is little individuality: it feels as though we have seen this all before
Forgettable and generic...
This boardroom blackmail romp feels as contrived and silly as anything Luketic has helmed in recent years.
If there's anything most conspicuously in short supply in this thriller it's a strong sense of exactly that, paranoia.
...the denouement...has no relationship with what has gone before. Junkie XL's music builds tension and, believe me, this movie needs it because the story is so weak.
How did they take Joseph Finder's good novel and make a lackluster film with a super cast? Go figure!
a flabby congealed thing that is in no way helped by lackluster direction and a derivative script
Bolstered by a bland by a lead performance by Liam Hemsworth, Paranoia gives no reason for audiences to look over their shoulder, but plenty of them to keep an eye on their watches.
The inert techno-thriller Paranoia is much like watching an app download on a weak Internet connection -- slow and tedious, it seems to take forever.
A better title might have been Greed, Theft or Espionage. Or, to be brutally honest, Boredom.
Less actively bad than utterly, painfully familiar, the kind of movie that stakes its claims entirely on opening-weekend box-office receipts because those involved know nobody will remember it come Monday.
Not an original bone in its body -- but there's always something to be said for a great cast.
Paranoia is so ineptly made that the ride home from the theater will be more suspenseful than anything that took place on the screen.
Audience Reviews for Paranoia
In this PG-13-rated techno-thriller, an entry-level employee at a powerful corporation (Hemsworth) finds himself: spying on his boss's (Gary Oldman) old mentor (Harrison Ford) to qualify for a multi-billion dollar payday and lifestyle.
Instead of the marquee talent promised, moviegoers are left to wonder to whom Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford lost a bet. When they go through the paces, there's at least a bargain basement entertainment value--expensive-looking goods made cheap. Nothing good can be said for Liam Hemsworth, however. Blessed by the Talent Gods with one expression, this young actor got away easier in The Expendables 2...he died after delivering his few lines of dialogue. Here, he and audience don't get off as easy. Instead, all involved get subjected to Hemsworth waking up a night of bonking Amber Heard with every hair perfectly in place and Julian McMahon flicking alight a Zippo menacingly like a Bond villain.
Bottom line: Three Doze of the Condor.
Super Reviewer
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- Nicholas Wyatt: A burned BMW is what I hear all the hype is about. Apparently a cool story behind the BW burned BMW!
Discussion Forum
| Topic | Last Post | Replies |
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| Guess the Tomatometer | 49 days ago | 27 |
| 4% dammmmmm!!! | 49 days ago | 15 |
| Liam Hemsworth is a shitty actor | 40 days ago | 4 |
| Harrison Ford II? RT Typo? | 51 days ago | 3 |
| Box office : $30 million???? | 55 days ago | 0 |
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