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Let’s just say director John Moore’s new thriller I.T. should be lost in cyberspace — not filling up an hour and a half of your life.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme
Beat by beat, it’s exactly what you’d expect, right down to the camera’s prurient interest in the dewy flesh of Stefanie Scott as the 17-year-old daughter.
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Brosnan is very effective at playing Regan as a wary technophobe who has become too comfortable with his power and success.
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We Got This Covered by Matt Donato
Many have done worse with similar setups, which isn't exactly a glowing recommendation - but hey, if you love Pierce Brosnan enough, you should be fine with I.T.
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The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger
John Moore, the director, and Dan Kay and William Wisher, the screenwriters, don’t have anything new to add to that familiar dynamic.
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Los Angeles Times by Noel Murray
Ultimately, there’s just nothing here that’s snappy or relevant. In tech-speak, this film is bricked.
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The Playlist by Oktay Ege Kozak
If it came out in the ’90s, I.T. would have been a silly distraction. In this day and age, it’s a colossal waste of time, a 14K dial-up in the time of fiber optic.
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It’s all quite predictable — save for the sinister use of the music of Missing Persons — and a trifle bland. But the depictions of password-access mayhem are chillingly real, and Brosnan gets across the helplessness that many his age, all over the world, feel at the new tech and the new rules — no rules at all — threatening his ruin.
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Village Voice by Sherilyn Connelly
Whatever cautionary point I.T. may be trying to make about privacy gets lost in the formulaic ugliness, and not even the constant stream of facepalm moments make it entertaining or watchable.
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The Matrix wants its green-and-black colour scheme back. Cape Fear wants its toxic male combat back. You may well want your money back.