kynick2 I came across the book in a dollar store and figured I'd have something to read on my upcoming plane trip. I actually forgot about it until a week ago and started reading. I realized A List actors were on the cover and realized it was a movie. I decided to finish the book and watch the film after. I'd expect more from an ABC movie of the week. The speed at which the story unfolds is ridiculous and that is being generous. THE ACTING...only slightly better, On the plus side,,,if you're a fan of plot holes, you are in luck. If you enjoy an occasional, albeit brief views of the New York City skyline...you're in luck. In short, do yourself a favor and don't bother,

dpatsawyer This is basically a remake of Caprice (1967) with Doris Day and Richard Harris. Whoever wrote it should be ashamed they lifted the plot from a previous film. I have not read the novel by Joseph Finder so I do not know how much of it was possibly inspired by Caprice, but certainly the premise of Paranoia is the same. Sort of a rip-off in my opinion.I thought it was boring and full of clichés. Poor acting, though Ford and Oldman do okay, but the others, both main characters played by Liam Hemsworth and Amber Heard are very poor IMO.Air Force One was a much better film featuring Oldham and Ford, both fine actors.

Uriah43 "Adam Cassidy" (Liam Hemsworth) and his team have a project that needs to be pitched to their boss "Nicolas Wyatt" (Gary Oldman) who owns a hi-tech company worth millions of dollars. Unfortunately, Adam bombs the presentation and both he and his entire team are fired. He then really messes things up when he decides to use the corporate credit card that night to treat the team to one last party. After spending over $10,000 he is then called back into Mr. Wyatt's office and given a choice of either going to jail for credit card fraud or becoming a corporate spy for Mr. Wyatt who desperately wants information from his main rival. Needless to say he chooses the illegal path of industrial espionage. But things don't necessarily work as planned. Anyway, rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that it was an okay way to spend about an hour and a half. There was some action and a little bit of suspense but quite frankly not enough for me to rate this movie any higher than I have. Average.

brchthethird This movie proves that Liam Hemsworth isn't his brother, and doesn't have the charisma to be a leading man. Add to that a clichéd script driven by coincidence and stupidity, lazy performances and zero tension in what is ostensibly a "thriller" and you have yourself a turkey. To start, the voice-over narration is mostly pointless, as it's just telling you stuff that you're seeing, or will see in short time. There is minimal character development, and the lead character is so un-charismatic that it's painful to watch. He's not even that likable in my opinion. Sure, he has the puppy dog face, but he makes the stupidest decisions and he's an asshole to everyone he knows. The plot is something about corporate espionage, but we're never given a reason to care. There's lots of buzzwords and jargon thrown around to make it sound "hip" and "cool" or "techie" but none if it really adds up to anything. It just sounds like they didn't really think the story through that much. To top things off, what little conflict there is has no dramatic weight for the most part, and the ending wraps up everything too cleanly and quickly to be believable. Yay, good triumphs over evil, but throw reality out the window while you're at it. Even the romantic subplot isn't interesting enough to distract you from all of the ineptness in the movie, and to be honest they didn't have too much on screen chemistry anyway. The only legitimate reasons to see this movie are Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman, and even they ham it up in the scenes they're in, only appearing together twice. They can chew the scenery with the best of them, but they're given precious little to work with here. Still, there is some creative directorial flourishes (if you can call them that) which kind of lend a veneer of cool to the proceedings, but everything else is so banal it really begs the question why the director even bothered with a script this bad. Save your money and/or time with this one.