I saw this film on the basis of the strong reviews it had in Time Out and in the papers generally, but both I and Mark, who came to the film with me, were pretty bored with it. I just didn't find the whole subject of how Facebook came into being at all engaging - I had seen a TV interview with the producer who said that it was a human interest story, rather than a story abotu Facebook, but I would disagree.
I thought the main actor, Jesse Eisenberg, playing Mark Zuckerburg, spoke far too fast, and often about techy things. Also, there are a couple of scenes which are shot in bars or nightclubs, where I really struggled to even hear what the actors were saying. Justin Timberlake is vaguely interesting as Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, but I found the legal cases with the Winklevoss brothers and with Eduardo Saverin pretty tedious.
One saving grace of this film was that I saw it at the very nice Renoir cinema in London, and had a yummy ice cream to keep me happy during the boring bits.
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