It’s like the song that never ends, it just goes on and on, my friends. Guys, this movie should have been a nice little short film that got straight to the point, because the concept wasn’t that bad. Voyeurism is a subgenre in thriller films, as I just finished reviewing the remake of Rear Window. It’s interesting in more ways than one – but this movie just takes it too far, complete with video cameras that can apparently see through walls like Superman’s X-Ray vision – and that’s not even the worst of it.

This movie has at the very least three concrete endings. The first one, I couldn’t help but notice was smack dab in the middle of the movie. I was about to get up to do some chores when I realized that there was still 45 minutes left. Then 30 minutes left. Then 15. This movie feels extremely long at 90 minutes because there is absolutely no flow. The first half of the movie could be considered okay if it were to end at that point – but once it drags on, the movie quickly turns to crapitude in the blink of an eye. Why? In my opinion, the film believed whole-heartedly that it required having a twist ending. So instead of having a twist that makes any logical sense, they go on and on trying to explain something that defies logic, and in result, digs itself deeper into a neverending pit of disappointment. I’m sitting here writing this review extremely confused.

I was at least somewhat interested in seeing this movie, regardless that on Netflix, it holds a 1/5 star rating. The concept looked interesting, and I am more or less, a fan of Elijah Wood. As I’ve said, the beginning of the movie isn’t bad at all – it hits all the points it needs to in order to prepare you for this cyber world…it just stumbles over itself so many times that I’m almost embarrassed at the fact that I even watched it to begin with. These movies make me question on if I should watch another one…

**The night of the battle of the hackers!**

I have been longing to watch this film since it was out, only now it had happened. There are not many hacking film that could satisfy thoroughly. Well, I haven't found as impressive as the recent 'Who Am I'. This film was more like partially a found-footage type. Everything was from webcams and phone cams. Not exactly truthful to the reality. Even people with basic knowledge about computers would know that. But entertainment was there. I enjoyed it, mainly because of the speed and being an edgy.

Well, a contest winner is waiting in his hotel room for his dinner date with a celebrity in the later night. While he was updating his blog, someone hacks his computer and gives more contents for the blog than he had thought of. But soon it all plays out differently. Now he's the hacker's puppet, and must follow everything he says or the consequences would be serious. How far it all goes and how it all ends are the remaining story to tell us.

As I said not the best in this theme, but watchable film. Everything was a one night event. Slowly started and then picked up the pace before ending on a high. The end was not good, the twist. At least that's how I felt. Should have been better, yet acceptable. Elijah was good. I just checked it out after seeing his nice act in his latest Netflix film. The rest of the cast was fine too. A Spanish film in English language. Soon I'm going to check out the 'Colossal' from this same director. So it is a good time pass film and you might enjoy it as I did.

**6/10**

**Real-time hacker film that is all style no substance.**

There were so many times I was shaking my head at the sheer stupidity of this film. The premise is thin, the acting is mostly weak. There are some kind of cool visuals, but they don't make up for the many, many flaws. Even the usually solid Elijah Wood seems to be coasting. Real-time can be exciting, and I get that the style the film makers were going for, but your film still needs to work even if it didn't have the gimmick. This one does not.

4/10

It's up to Frodo Baggins to save pornstar Sasha Grey!

I didn't realise it was like a found footage film (was bored in most of the film).

But it gets the extra star for that surprising twist!

Plus it featured Elijah Wood from Lord of the Rings and former adult star Sasha Grey in what I assume is her first main role in a mainstream film.
In other words, I'm leaving the three stars as it is.

The problems posed by the authors of this film are understandable. This is the openness of society. We are all under the hood. And no one will be able to hide from Big Brother’s field of vision, even if we just sit at home and eat scrambled eggs with bacon. But now there are many decentralized applications such as Utopia p2p, which can save data security. I don’t understand why they say little about it?