Jargon, Jargon, blah... lifestyle change... blah... 'alienation/disillusionment'... blah... 'Gen X'... blah...
I could easily go on; this is 'identikit to its very core - so much so I'm convinced that there must be a program lurking somewhere specifically concerned with how to make movies as formulaic as this!
Philippe is the 'hero', which on reflection is ideal because he's the perfect 'blank canvas' for an endeavour so nondescript. His idea of 'urgent' acting seems from this to be: TALK-VERY-FAST! Robbins takes a bow as the villain to give the project nothing more than it deserves - a hammy performance. Even the director seems to run out of ideas halfway through, overusing close-ups to inject a false sense of drama.
It's very sad that the closest it comes to achieving its ambitions is playing like a teenybopper version of "The Firm", when it's perhaps easier to stake a claim for it being a mild ripoff of "Hackers". How desperate do you have to be to find yourself plagiarising a film that wasn't all that 'seminal' in the first place?!
I could easily go on; this is 'identikit to its very core - so much so I'm convinced that there must be a program lurking somewhere specifically concerned with how to make movies as formulaic as this!
Philippe is the 'hero', which on reflection is ideal because he's the perfect 'blank canvas' for an endeavour so nondescript. His idea of 'urgent' acting seems from this to be: TALK-VERY-FAST! Robbins takes a bow as the villain to give the project nothing more than it deserves - a hammy performance. Even the director seems to run out of ideas halfway through, overusing close-ups to inject a false sense of drama.
It's very sad that the closest it comes to achieving its ambitions is playing like a teenybopper version of "The Firm", when it's perhaps easier to stake a claim for it being a mild ripoff of "Hackers". How desperate do you have to be to find yourself plagiarising a film that wasn't all that 'seminal' in the first place?!