I.T.

bnt

Cyber-thriller due next month, starring Pierce Brosnan, who also exec-produced through his Irish DreamTime company. Decent trailer, though it does give half the story away:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfnDTvbtDUI

xper

Set in the US but a good chunk if not all of it shot in Ireland. Definitely spotted a couple of familiar locations in the trailer including UCD apparently masquerading as an American high school.

Film itself looks to be entirely by the numbers tech thriller. No doubt the ability of the technical wizard protagonist to interfere with the other characters lives will be ludicrously overextended as per usual.

Mr E

Looks watchable. Brosnan's accent is all over the place though.

bnt

Not just the "high school" - the building at 1:20 looks like UCD too. At 1:48 they're sitting next to the UCD lake looking over at O'Reilly Hall ... with the Washington Monument and Capitol in the background! :pac:

Dair76

Yeah, the bit at 1:00 where he's told they've been hacked is inside the Science building.

It's kind of embarrassing for an Irish actor to have a poor Irish accent. It's not Brosnan's first offense either - it was dire in Evelyn as well.

syklops

Can't be worse than Blackhat.

Oh wait, yeah it probably could be. Trailer looks watchable though.

SnakePlissken

Did everyone else miss the part where it proudly advertises this as from the director of A Good Day to Die Hard? It's going to be abysmal.

bnt

The reviews are in. Oh dear.

Star_Nupa

Mike Regan (Pierce Brosnan) is a successful, self-made man who has it all: a gorgeous wife, a beautiful teenage daughter and a sleek, state-of-the-art “smart home”. But he soon finds himself in a deadly, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse when his I.T. consultant, Ed, starts using his skills to stalk Mike’s daughter and endanger his family, his business, and his life. In a world where there is no privacy, and personal secrets can go viral by the click of a mouse, Mike needs to rely on his old connections to defeat a new kind of nemesis.

Sounds a very 'by the numbers' thriller...dreadful even. Still, it could be mildly entertaining for a one-off watch...when there's absolutely nothing else to watch!

Edit: I actually thought Blackhat was OK. Maybe because I was expecting worse.

conorhal

Trailer..... what did I just watch? It's like a 90's flashback when we got a slew of second rate cyber thrillers like Sandra Bullock in 'The Net'.

syklops

Dair76 wrote: »

It's kind of embarrassing for an Irish actor to have a poor Irish accent. It's not Brosnan's first offense either - it was dire in Evelyn as well.

Someone said the same thing about Jamie Dornan in Siege at Jadotville. Of course we would be sensitive to it because we know what an Irish accent sounds like, but to a non-Irish person it has to made clear and obvious to them that this person is Irish, and so the actor puts on an embellished Oirish accent. Its not for your benefit or for mine, its for Paddy C O'Sullivan, fourth generation american whose never left his state never mind heard a real Irish person speak.

Its probably the same for Russian people anytime they hear a "Russian accent" in the movies. Most Russians I know speak english in an American accent because they learnt English watching american TV. They don't actually sound like they just got off the trans-siberian express, and I've never heard them say Da or Nyet when speaking english, but you regularly see that in TV and Film.

Mr E

Saw it a few days ago. I thought it started well but went downhill quickly.

For a movie about technology and IT,

the ending was surprisingly low tech and anti-climactic. It would have been more satisfying for the viewer if Regan had somehow beat him at his own game, rather than rob him of his power and lower him to his level.

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Anna Friel was very good and the great Michael Nyqvist was wasted.

dunworth1

syklops wrote: »

Can't be worse than Blackhat.

please never mention that pile of s**t every again.

that film just showed me how bad an actor Hemsworth really is

Wedwood

There really has been nothing for Brosnan after Bond. He's back in that space he was in before Bond when the likes of supporting roles in Mrs Doubtfire was about the height of it.

Ok, will give him Evelyn, but the rest has been dross like this effort.

Pinkman

Wedwood wrote: »

There really has been nothing for Brosnan after Bond. He's back in that space he was in before Bond when the likes of supporting roles in Mrs Doubtfire was about the height of it.

Ok, will give him Evelyn, but the rest has been dross like this effort.

The Matador was a brilliant film. Granted it was over a decade ago but it was post Bond. Roman Polanski's 'The Ghost Writer' was also a very good thriller and I enjoyed Seraphim Falls but generally he has made a lot of poor choices.

j.s. pill II

Pinkman wrote: »

The Matador was a brilliant film. Granted it was over a decade ago but it was post Bond. Roman Polanski's 'The Ghost Writer' was also a very good thriller and I enjoyed Seraphim Falls but generally he has made a lot of poor choices.

And don't forget The Tailor of Panama - t'was a good old romp