Paranoia 2013

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: 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 more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: In critical ways the movie feels both out of date and out of touch. Read more

Andrew Barker, Variety: 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 more

A.A. Dowd, AV Club: As a post-financial-crisis movie, Paranoia is muddled at best, wagging its finger at Hemsworth's ambitious bridge-and-tunnel type while fetishizing the life of luxury he cheats his way into. Read more

Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic: "Paranoia" is ostensibly a thriller, but there's nothing remotely thrilling about it. The slick, plodding bore is as exciting as watching somebody else tap out text messages. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: "Paranoia" is a plug-and-play Hollywood thriller, not the best the genre has to offer but hardly the worst. Read more

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: In a movie about a new generation's hunger to topple the old guard, pretty boy Hemsworth is outclassed by his veteran costars, who get more mileage from baring their teeth than he does baring his chest. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: There's nothing wrong with Paranoia that a stronger director, livelier leading actors and several hundred fewer narrative conveniences wouldn't cure. Read more

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: Paranoia? More like deja vu. Read more

William Goss, Film.com: There's much sprinting and keyboard-clacking for an audience that might feasibly value the sight of either over the presence of genuine invention or suspense. Read more

Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter: Slick but muddled thriller about corporate espionage never gets our pulse pounding. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Did Harrison Ford hope the shorn look would give his high-tech mogul Jock Goddard some edge? He certainly needed something to. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: There's too much here that doesn't ring true or make any sense beyond script convenience. Read more

Frank Lovece, Newsday: You're not paranoid -- it really is bad. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: "Paranoia's" twitchiness is like an actual twitch: it's contrived and clunky, and you forget it in an instant. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Why blaze new trails when the old ones are so well-marked? This one is essentially "The Firm" with smartphones. Read more

Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: The film is all thunderous cliches. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: What it lacks is even an iota of originality. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The movie doesn't make a whole lot of sense and, when it does, it would be better off not doing so. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: I smiled twice during Paranoia. Both times when Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman had scenes together and hammed it up like pros in hog heaven. Read more

David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: Paranoia, 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 more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Paranoia" is too sloppy and slack to inspire tension. Read more

Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times: While Paranoia has been cast with some top-notch actors, the problem here is a lack of oomph both in the script, adapted from Joseph Finder's novel, and the pretty lame direction by Robert Luketic. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Corporate thrillers just aren't what they used to be. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: It's tension free and as a result, forgettable. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Its twists are either predictable or improbable, and its double-crosses are so inert they're more like crosses-and-a-half. Read more

Nick Schager, Time Out: Fixates on the perils and panic of our modern surveillance culture while itself proving to be borderline unwatchable. Read more

Scott Bowles, USA Today: Were it the sum of its formidable parts, Paranoia might give good movies an inferiority complex. Read more

Ernest Hardy, Village Voice: 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 more

Sean O'Connell, Washington Post: Screenwriters Jason Dean Hall and Barry Levy swipe plot twists from the film adaptations of best-selling author John Grisham's novels. Read more