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Director Robert Luketic’s thriller Paranoia has a host of problems, but the biggest seems to be that no one in it is nearly paranoid enough.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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Paranoia has a promising foundation — betrayal, danger and corporate espionage are solid building blocks of suspense. But the movie turns out to be more exasperating than exciting.
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New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier
Paranoia’s twitchiness is like an actual twitch: it’s contrived and clunky, and you forget it in an instant.
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Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips
There's nothing wrong with Paranoia that a stronger director, livelier leading actors and several hundred fewer narrative conveniences wouldn't cure.
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Ford and Oldman’s scenes together are Paranoia’s sole redeeming facet.
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Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
It galls me that Hollywood thinks we're shallow enough to swallow this swill. Or am I just being paranoid?
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore
It is as slow, slick and superficial as the director of “21″ and “Killers” can make it.
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It plays more like a "21 Jump Street," full of pretty people and a thumping soundtrack but offering little in the way of something to say.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Farber
The filmmakers may have hoped to make a timely commentary on the amorality in our executive suites, but they end up merely restating the obvious. Maybe the whole thing would have played better as a corporate comedy, the kind that Doris Day and Rock Hudson made some 50 years ago.
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Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
Hemsworth, who is Gale Hawthorne in "The Hunger Games" and the brother of the Hemsworth who stars as "Thor", has maybe one arrow in his acting quiver - he can look engaged.