My Movie Journal is Better Than Yours

Notes History

Date Viewed	Venue	Note
02.02.17	Internet	This movie lost me about 45 seconds in when someone said "use SQL to corrupt their database" immediately followed by a CIA supermodel/genius hacker Alicia Vikander typing "run predictive algorithm" into her computer with its nondescript futuristic UI. After that, I made a conscious decision to not treat this as realistic at all and just hope that it's better than the Jeremy Renner movie. It was hard though. I mean, the CIA lady literally says "enhance" while some faceless techie makes a jumble of pixels into Julia Stiles. Compared to Jeremy Renner getting dumber by the second as his super soldier pills wear off, I suppose this was better. But is boring really any better than ridiculous? I'm noticing that the film is co-written by the director and the editor. I wonder if that means there was no script and the film was put together in post or if the two guys actually sat down together and wrote. I'm sure there's a joke or two somewhere in there, like the script has 3000 shot descriptions in typical Greengrass "kinetic" style. Anyway... pretty blah