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Reboot (2012)
Please don't waste 39 minutes of your life watching this...
What a great premise: "A young female hacker awakens from a traumatic event that she scarcely remembers, and an iPhone glued to her hand. On the phone, a countdown is ticking away to zero." Unfortunately, that is the ONLY good thing about the film. There is even a clue as to the disaster that is about to be watched in the mention of an iPhone! In the first few minutes of the film, the iPhone gets hooked up to a MacBook and the MacBook is running the simplest JavaScript code imaginable from a "C:\Windows" prompt. Really? A hacker running a Windows emulator on a Mac? Epic tech fails on the level of 24! (see the episode where the 'Internet gets hacked'!) There's also the part where the 'payload' is one single line of plain-English code which Stat (played by Emily Somers) is able to circumvent it by modifying already-running code.
At this point, you may be saying, "Dude you are just a geek!" This may be true. This IS true! Unfortunately, there are also major plot letdowns. We're talking about a 39-minute short here. Get in, get out and hit it hard - just like an old-school Isaac Asimov sci-fi short story. There was no need for the side story with the girl bound to a chair watching her life being uploaded.
In the end, we find out the punchline is 'the system is bad so it has to be taken down' and all of the lights in the city go out and the closing credits roll. Could you be more generic?