stvstt I noted that this movie had a very good rating on Netflix, and having nothing better to do on a week day evening I decided to watch it.As to the plot: well, young IT wizard (Jason Berry) helps out a corporation boss (Pierce Brosnan) . Boss subsequently befriends and employs IT wizard, who then takes an unhealthy interest in Boss's daughter. Boss gets wise to this and sacks IT wizard. IT wizard sets out on exacting a cyber revenge, which ends all rather explosively. Nuff said!The problem with this movie is that it expects too much of itself; it doesn't know whether it wants to be plot driven or character driven. In the end, it settles for a poor compromise. The plot is highly derivative and features in so many previous movies. In fact, if they had spent a little more time unraveling the psychology of the villain (Jason Berry), which was a missed opportunity, they would have had a better plot line.In terms of the characters, I can't image that Pierce Brosnan, Anna Freil, and Jason Berry, have had less demanding roles. I was left having no sympathy for any of the characters, whether they be villains or victims. I came to the conclusion that I was the victim or a rating hoax. After an hour, I was willing the film on to a speedy conclusion. Ten minutes before the end I decided to do the washing up and watch the remainder over my shoulder.The movie lacks plot development, character development, but above all else it lacks 'watchability'.

secondtake I.T. (2016)A typical modern thriller with a strong (and typical) performance by Pierce Brosnan as a wealthy businessman. He's painted as a good guy, with a loving wife and slightly rebellious but nice enough teenage daughter.They live in a modern rich house with the latest in "smart" appliances, so the shower and the windows and video cameras are all controlled through computers, which are connected by internet. Enter the I.T. expert who is asked (without any background check at all) to enter this guy's house and tinker with the system which is wonky. And to ogle the daughter, who he begins to admire, and then stalk. It gets ugly from there. If only the actor playing the villain were half as evil as he wishes he was--he's a big flaw in all the suspense.Lots of predictable buttons are pushed—the angry father, the demonic mind of the criminal, and the many screens and portable devices that can show pictures in fancy ways. It's all pretty good stuff, but never quite as inventive or scary or even as visually chilling as it could have been. One flaw, for example, is the key soft porn scene that was supposedly captured by a tablet on a table, and yet it is shows like normal cinematography with a variety of camera shots and perfect clarity, etc. There are lots of little opportunities lost here, but Brosnan is a decent version of the angry father out for justice. Not as sensational as the Liam Neesan type in recent movies, and more believable. With some computer spying tricks that keep it all interesting along the way.

rrider92131 This is a bizarre movie -- for reasons few will notice. It's a thriller about a wealthy man who founded and is CEO of a big private jet manufacturing company. Quite rich, Brosnan gets entangled with a deranged computer hacker working as an I.T. temp in his company. It's perhaps a mediocre movie, but I was transfixed by the tale.You see, this wealthy CEO -- seeking to make much more money by taking the company public -- was the GOOD GUY. His employees really liked him, and they had a great working relationship.I can't recall the last movie I watched where a profit-seeking wealthy person was the hero. I kept expecting his fatal capitalist flaw to appear -- uncontrollable greed, yada, yada, yada. It didn't happen.(Yeah, Bruce Wayne was wealthy, but never do you hear him discussing making more money. Just giving his daddy's money away, making more Batman toys -- and living large.)I'm not necessarily recommending the movie to you, but perhaps it's worth seeing JUST for this "man bites dog" reason. It's a reminder that it's not ABSOLUTELY necessary for movie makers to always portray rich people as villains.One thing's for sure -- it won't start a trend in movies. Not a chance.

FlashCallahan Mike Regan has everything, a beautiful family and a top of the line smart house. The company he owns is on the verge of changing flight leasing forever. That is, until the relationship with his I.T. adviser turns nasty. after arriving to the house unannounced, and abruptly told to leave by Mike, this leads to a change in personality of the adviser, so much to the point where his teenage daughter is being stalked and his family is under attack through every technological factor of their lives.it's like being back in 1993 again....I could watch Pierce Brosnan do anything, if there was a Blu Ray release of Pierce reading the dictionary.....A, I would buy it and it's 25 sequels.I knew I wasn't going to get the best cinematic experience, this coming from the man who single handed destroyed the Die Hard franchise, but what drew me to the film was of course Brosnan, but the fact that it harks back to those 'nice people turn psycho' films that were rife in the early nineties, thanks to Fatal Attraction, and the majority of Michael Douglas' output from 1987-1996.This has more in common with 1996's Fear, where Marky Mark got really funky with Reese Witherspoon.It's nothing new, Brosnan is married to Anna Friel, he has the perfect life, a wonderful daughter, and a new guy in the company who seems too good to be true.And like The Cable Guy, Mike says something that instantly makes our antagonist think they are best friends, and when he is rejected, that's when the obligatory stalking, and voyeurism begins.So for the final third, it's Brosnan on a mission to save his family, and it's all over before you can say 'there's an Unlawful Entry in Pacific Heights, by a Single White female'.It's completely stuck in the nineties, but I've always has a weakness for these types of thrillers, and it filled a guilty pleasure of a gap,