Paranoia
Relativity Media | Release Date: August 16, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
32
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
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0
Mixed:
18
Negative:
12
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60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 19, 2013
Now it feels almost quaint, like a throwback. You watch it and, despite all the au courant techno geekery on display, you feel like you’ve stepped into a time capsule. It’s a nice feeling at first. If only the movie were better. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyAug 16, 2013
The only real reason Paranoia is even remotely worth watching is the chance to see Oldman and Ford go head-to-head like two vipers thrown into a potato sack. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesBill ZweckerAug 15, 2013
The actors do their best. The problem here is simply a formulaic screenplay and less-than-inspired direction. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle SmithAug 15, 2013
This one is essentially “The Firm” with smartphones. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyAug 15, 2013
There’s a scene in a members-only club where Wyatt and Goddard meet, giving the two veteran actors the chance to go eyeball to eyeball for a couple of minutes of barbed dialogue. It almost makes the movie worth it. Read full review
50
Washington PostSean O’ConnellAug 15, 2013
There’s tension to be wrung from the premise, but Luketic is content to telegraph his movie’s juiciest twists, concentrating instead on applying a sleek visual sheen usually reserved for shampoo commercials. Read full review
50
USA TodayScott BowlesAug 15, 2013
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. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaAug 15, 2013
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. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie OgleAug 15, 2013
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. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAug 15, 2013
There's nothing wrong with Paranoia that a stronger director, livelier leading actors and several hundred fewer narrative conveniences wouldn't cure. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberAug 9, 2013
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. Read full review
45
Film.comWilliam GossAug 19, 2013
Frankly, no one in this ensemble is done any favors by Jason Hall and Barry Levy’s screenplay, a “Duplicity” for dummies filled to the brim with double-crossing cliches. Read full review
42
The PlaylistKimber MyersAug 15, 2013
The bland, boring Paranoia does little to distinguish itself and isn’t good (or even enjoyably bad enough) to be passable even as Saturday afternoon cable fodder. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Aug 15, 2013
The film works only, if at all, as an unofficial Air Force One reunion, with Ford stopping just short of bellowing “Get off my jock!” during a pair of gritted-teeth encounters with Oldman. Some pleasures never go out of fashion. Read full review
40
EmpireIan FreerMar 3, 2014
Even a cast boasting Oldman and Harrison Ford can't salvage his dreary, contrived corporate thriller. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghAug 15, 2013
Paranoia is ostensibly a thriller, but there’s nothing remotely thrilling about it. This slick, plodding bore is as exciting as watching somebody else tap out text messages. Read full review
40
The DissolveNathan RabinAug 15, 2013
Ford and Oldman’s scenes together are Paranoia’s sole redeeming facet. Read full review
40
VarietyAndrew BarkerAug 9, 2013
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. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 19, 2013
However, once you realize there's no "pleasure" to be had from something this wantonly dumb and idiotically constructed, all that's left is "guilt" - guilt that you actually spent money to see this. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneAug 15, 2013
Robert Luketic's supposedly down-and-dirty corporate espionage thriller undercuts itself at nearly every turn by shunning any potential relevancy. Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreAug 15, 2013
It is as slow, slick and superficial as the director of “21″ and “Killers” can make it. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyAug 15, 2013
I'm not going to get into the acting, because there's not much of it, frankly. No one is embarrassingly bad; no one is exceptionally good. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisAug 19, 2013
A ho-hum thriller about corporate spying in the high-tech world, comes off as a lot more preposterous than paranoid, and it takes no more than a few frames for the eye rolling to commence. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiAug 16, 2013
Although presumably meant to be a modern-day version of the classic conspiracy thriller "The Conversation," Paranoia is so vapid that it plays like "Antitrust" sans the food allergies. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter TraversAug 15, 2013
It galls me that Hollywood thinks we're shallow enough to swallow this swill. Or am I just being paranoid? Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisAug 21, 2013
You could drive an 18-wheeler through the substantial number of plot holes in Paranoia. Read full review
20
Village VoiceErnest HardyAug 20, 2013
This is a film at odds with itself, wanting to be a 99 percenter rallying cry but wallowing in and fetishizing 1 percenter accoutrement at every turn. Read full review
20
Time OutNick SchagerAug 20, 2013
The fact that Hemsworth is severely lacking in leading-man charisma also doesn’t help the pervasive overall incompetence of the film, which fixates on the perils and panic of our modern surveillance culture while itself proving to be borderline unwatchable. Read full review
20
The New York TimesStephen HoldenAug 15, 2013
Mr. Oldman and Mr. Ford are the only actors in the film, directed by Robert Luketic (“Legally Blonde”), skillful enough to navigate the yards of jargon-packed boilerplate in Jason Hall and Barry L. Levy’s thudding screenplay. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 15, 2013
Paranoia’s twitchiness is like an actual twitch: it’s contrived and clunky, and you forget it in an instant. Read full review
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