On September 8, 2013, after hearing an astounding news story on TV, I have decided to edit this posting. The movie's synopsis will not be altered, and is the following:
A computer analyst gets into a lot of trouble because of a computer disk which is sent to her by a friend. Said disk has the power of invading government computers.
The comment below, on the other hand, can no longer be sustained:
Suspense thriller the mcguffin of which is a completely implausible computer fraud. The action proper is also completely implausible, and so is the main character. All these levels of implausibility place the film on a decidedly abstract dimension at which any thought of an underlying structure is futile. I guess that makes it postmodern; nay, I am sure of that. You get to watch a rehash of several topoi of suspense cinema -- the carnival sequence, the boat sequence, the car sequence, the elevating bridge sequence, etc. At the end you will feel like the protagonist's alzheimer-ridden mother: mindlessly happy, unable to say who these people are, what world they live in, and what you are doing in there. Wait a minute -- we may have found that underlying structure...
The above, I repeat, can no longer be sustained in its entirety, although a critical reading of it may still give you an insight into some aspects of the film. If the news story I mentioned above is correct, the film was either prophetic about real occurrences, or provided the idea that originated them. The idea I am referring to is that of networks with an in-built vulnerability. In real life, governments were reportedly responsible for, and took advantage of, that vulnerability, whereas in the movie that was done by an evil guy in the private sector. I also recoil from the demeaning remarks about the film's art, which I called a "rehash". All things considered (and some do not have to do with any piece of news), this was a watchable suspense thriller done with competent technique and containing a few good ideas.
Rating: 50 (instead of the earlier 31)
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