A couple of early reviews for David Fincher’s The Social Network have made their way online, so I thought I’d pull them all together and package them into a post for you.
The Social Network was penned by Aaron Sorkin and is loosely based on Ben Mezrich’s 2009 nonfiction book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal and focuses on the tumultuous early years of Facebook, which was founded in 2004.
David Fincher directs an extraordinary cast of talented young actors and actresses, including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Rooney Mara, Justin Timberlake, Rashida Jones and Max Minghella.
Below are a few of the early reviews that have been found online.
Warning: The reviews below are mostly spoiler-free, but if you wish to enjoy the film without any pre-conceived ideas, then I suggest you look away now.
Slash Film:
“The Social Network is Fincher’s best film since Fight Club, which is saying a lot considering I loved Zodiac. It is also my favorite movie of the year (so far). […] Jessie Eisenberg perfectly captures the awkward and impassive qualities of Mark Zuckerberg. Andrew Garfield will win audiences over, and Rooney Mara (who I’ve been unimpressed with thus far) finally shows us why she was cast as the lead in Fincher’s next film.”
Chud:
“The Social Network is a damn fine film, but I suspect a second viewing may reveal it to be a great film, an ‘All the President’s Men’ for the Farmville generation.”
Collider:
“Brilliant. Amazing. Perfect. I don’t know how else to say Fincher’s work on The Social Network proves he’s one of the best in the business.”
FilmLinc:
“The Social Network is splendid entertainment from a master storyteller, packed with energetic incident and surprising performances. […] The writing is razor-sharp and rarely makes a wrong step, compressing a time-shifting, multi-character narrative into two lean hours, and, perhaps most impressively, digests its big ideas into the kind of rapid-fire yet plausible dialogue that sounds like what hyper computer geeks might actually say (or at least wish they did): Quentin Tarantino crossed with Bill Gates.”
AICN:
“I was blown away. I went in with high hopes and the movie was everything I wanted and more. Clocking it at just over 2 hours, the flick has zero fat on it. That was the biggest surprise for me. I love Zodiac to death, but there are times in that movie where it crawls. Nothing like that here.”
So, there you have it. If that hasn’t convinced you to see the film, then perhaps the spenlid trailers will do the trick, watch them here and here.
The Social Networks opens in the UK on October 15.
