The plot: Facebook engineer Frances Haugen and The Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz blow the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.
This social sequel was underwhelming.
Pros: I appreciate this one felt like a cross between a Sequel and continuation. The three leads Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White & Jeremy Strong each did good job in their performances. The opening did help set the staged for the rest of the movie. How its shows Mark Zuckerberg out to be a meanie. They are still pretty good portraying Facebook co-workers including Frances & Jeff feel like real people. And I like when both of the leads gotten once justice in courtroom at the end and credit to Aaron Sorkin handling both directing and writing this one.
Cons: It doesn’t feel the same without the original people. It didn’t have much of energy and dry of interested. Jeremy Strong’s Mark Zuckerberg didn’t do that much. The script was a struggle to connect with / disappointed. & this was my time saying this one I could do without.
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Biography
Directed by Aaron Sorkin
Produced by Aaron Sorkin, Todd Black, Stuart M. Besser, Peter Rice
Written by Aaron Sorkin
Starring: Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen, Bill Burr & Jeremy Strong.
Cinematography: Jeff Cronenweth
Edited by Alan Baumgarten
Music by Alexandre Desplat
Production companies: Columbia Pictures, Alcon Entertainment
Distributed by: Sony Pictures
The Casts:
- Mikey Madison as Frances Haugen, a data engineer for Facebook and whistleblower who leaks thousands of the company’s internal documents
- Jeremy Allen White as Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter whose aid Frances enlists
- Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire CEO of Facebook
- Bill Burr as Charlie Garrigan, a former Facebook investor and member of Zuckerberg’s legal counsel (loosely based on Roger McNamee) [9]
- Wunmi Mosaku as Raya, a crisis management specialist and member of Zuckerberg’s legal counsel[10]
- Billy Magnussen as Teddy Marks, a media relations executive for Facebook[10]
- Betty Gilpin as Kris, the bureau chief of the Journal‘s San Francisco office and Jeff’s boss[11]
- Gbenga Akinnagbe as Andy, Horowitz’s editor
- Anna Lambe
- Aidan Laprete
- Kelley Pereira
- Nelson Franklin
- Portia Doubleday as Kayleigh, a former friend of Haugen’s who was radicalised by Voice of Reason, a white supremacy group on Facebook
- Patrick Fischler
- Joey Brooks
- Sierra Capri
- Tehmina Sunny
I would skip this one.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident film reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe