Paranoia

Good actors, loved this film as it was realistic and exactly what happens here. Greed, fame, money, power.

This film didn’t seem to attract much attention when it came out. It has a solid cast including Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Liam Hemsworth, Amber Heard and Richard Dreyfuss.The film is adapted from a best-seller corporate-espionage novel. Adam Cassidy [Liam Hemsworth] heads a small team of developers working at Wyatt Corporation. The action is supposed to be set in Manhattan, though the filming was actually in Philadelphia. Adam is a “bridge and tunnel kid”, as his would-be girlfriend puts it. That is, he lives in New Jersey and commutes into Manhattan, and he is middle class at best, but aspiring to climb up the ladder of corporate success and become at least moderately rich. All his team-mates have the same dreams.Wyatt Corporation is locked in a death-struggle with its arch-competitor, Eikon Corp (I LOVE the name!). In this age of merging media, each aspires to gain dominance over the cellphone industry and basically, every other form of electronic media to boot. Gary Oldman plays the boss of Wyatt Corp, and Harrison Ford plays “Jocko”: Jock Goddard, the head of Eikon. Watching the competition, I couldn’t help but think of Apple vs. Microsoft, though perhaps Apple vs. Google is a more apt comparison today…Well, Adam blows his presentation to the boss and he and his entire team are let go. Then the boss offers him one chance to redeem himself: weasel his way into the competitor, Eikon, and steal the designs for their upcoming cellphone. Adam is reluctant. “It’s criminal! I could go to prison!” Oldman/Wyatt points out that EVERY CORPORATION steals from other corporations. This is business as usual…So Wyatt positions Adam Cassidy as an apparent big star at his company, and gets him recruited by Eikon, his competitor. Now the plot truly begins.Naturally Adam falls head-over-heels for a bright and attractive young executive at Eikon, Emma Jennings, played by Amber Heard. And gee, Harrison Ford’s Jocko seems like such a LIKEABLE guy. Sincere; interested in producing great new products; informal, even kind to his employees. By contrast, Wyatt and company appear….well, downright EVIL…In discussing the Next Big Thing, Jocko explains to Adam that “People are gonna LOVE it! They’ll have instant connectivity to everything they want! And….we’ll know everything about them!” Adam says uneasily, “Do you think people will be bothered by all their personal information being under one roof?” To which Jocko replies, “No…what will matter more to them is that nice COZY FEELING under that roof.”Well of course it turns out that “Jocko” is nowhere near as benevolent as he seems on the surface, nor is he fooled by Adam or by Wyatt. Adam is the biggest chump, getting manipulated by both companies in turn. Can he manage to survive in one piece?Without revealing too much of the plot, I’ll just say it manages to find a reasonably happy ending. But what still resonates with me is the images: cellphone voice recorders recording you when you don’t know they are; their cameras filming you while you don’t know; TV set-cameras recording you; and you have no idea how many people have access to all your data, nor what they may do with it. That sobering reaity in this “internet age” goes way beyond one character’s story, or even the story of two corporations. I give this film a B. Some reviewers hated it, and said it offered absolutely nothing new. I think that it kept up a good pace, had me feeling the emotions Adam was feeling, and left me pondering bigger issues at the end.

Same as above.

This wasn’t a predictable movie. Very captivating.

Best movie I've seen in awhile.

I find this movie as trailer on a bluray I had pull out to watch and decided to go on line at Amazon.com. from there I brought paranoia, and what a brilliant thriller, that moves along at a good clip, it also has a good cast.

It's a competent film. Forget the reviews. It's completely watchable and unless all you do is watch movies, I assure you it hasn't been done before. Nice twist at the end--it's the story of a headstrong kid who makes mistakes, learns better and gets the girl...or does he? I don't want to spoil it for you, but you too can enjoy Amber Heard improving the scenery. The acting is just fine; the script and visuals well done; and I seriously doubt you will have figured out the main twist at the end before it happens.

In Indian Bollywood movies this would have been what is known as "Masala" movie. But then, despite all that Techno-mumbo-jumbo this was totally a letdown and felt totally unoriginal from start to finish. Harrison ford who plays the character of "Jock" Goddard deserves zero stars for his performance.The other characters also felt that they were totally overdressed, moisturized good looking and too much of everything. Heck even Liam Hemsworth walking style as he played the character "Adam Cassidy" was too much. Amber Heard who played the role of Emma Jennings was picturized as "pretty but stupid"... come on.. what were you thinking?.. The only character in the movie that played true was the villain named Nicholas Wyatt portrayed by Gary Oldman.In the end, If you love movies that have nothing to do with real life but enjoy exaggerated techno-mumbo jumbo with absolutely no basis then you might just like it. It does have that didn't I say "Bollywood masala theme" .. and some viewers might like it.. For me.. it was okay.. three stars! at best.. Generously speaking.

I missed this one at my local cinema, most likely they never ran it, and if it had not been for the good reviews here I doubt I would have bought the dvd. I spotted that Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford were in, so sent for it. I found it onenof the best movies l had seen fof months! Considering the subject is mobile phones which are a pet hate to me, I refuse to own one of these, for many reasons. They have completly taken over ourr young people, proof of this was shown recently in the newspapers when a baby in it's pushchair recently fell on a line in a London tube station, a young man was completly unaware of the drama happening around him, he was somewhere out in cyberspace. Then in this movie it's the young who eventually save the world. I should have really hated this movie, but instead I loved it! I liked the many twists and surprises, and although I did not really know the young leading man, I could accept him as the hero. So it was all a pleasent surprise to me. But, no, I still do not want a mobile phone. But it made a good movie!

Paranoia was a good film...with a clever premise. Being a fan of Ford and Oldman, I was keen to see them slug it out again as they had in Airforce One. Sadly, they were pushed into supporting roles. I really liked the film...but every time Ford and Oldman were on screen...I wanted more.Sometimes 'less is more'...unfortunately in this film...less was just less !

A good movie but we still can't find a scene that we watched on the trailer, as it was what made us buy it. However we thoroughly enjoyed it and felt all the actors really played their parts well. Being long term fans both of Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman it's a keeper.

Good concept for a storyline well acted great twist

Few surprises; top actors could be in better script