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Algorithm (2014)
Utter garbage
The premise - a hacker uncovering a shadowy military contractor spying on everyone - had a lot of potential. But the cringe-worthy writing, the swiss cheese plot, mediocre acting and the MyFirstFilm directing combined to make this perhaps the worst films I've ever seen. I watched it online and still felt robbed.
The first few minutes started with what seemed like an interesting if slightly toe-curling set up. However it quickly devolved into almost laugh out loud reactions to the tech-speak which sounded exactly how a non-technical person who spent the last 2 minutes flicking through a tech-dictionary thinks tech-speak should sound. I even began wondering whether it was a too subtle satire on the pseudo-tech film genre.
About half-way through it I realised I just didn't care about these people and what they were doing, even to the point where I was almost rooting for the baddies. That was until we got to hear more of them and found them to be equally as unrealistic with equally terrible lines. I stopped watching with a third of it still left.
This is a try-hard film that doesn't actually achieve anywhere near what it sets out to do in any dimension. I can't think of any redeeming features.