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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoWe Got This CoveredMatt DonatoMany have done worse with similar setups, which isn't exactly a glowing recommendation - but hey, if you love Pierce Brosnan enough, you should be fine with I.T.
- 50New York PostFarran Smith NehmeNew York PostFarran Smith NehmeBeat by beat, it’s exactly what you’d expect, right down to the camera’s prurient interest in the dewy flesh of Stefanie Scott as the 17-year-old daughter.
- 50VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonBrosnan is very effective at playing Regan as a wary technophobe who has become too comfortable with his power and success.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreIt’s all quite predictable — save for the sinister use of the music of Missing Persons — and a trifle bland. But the depictions of password-access mayhem are chillingly real, and Brosnan gets across the helplessness that many his age, all over the world, feel at the new tech and the new rules — no rules at all — threatening his ruin.
- 30Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayUltimately, there’s just nothing here that’s snappy or relevant. In tech-speak, this film is bricked.
- 30The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerJohn Moore, the director, and Dan Kay and William Wisher, the screenwriters, don’t have anything new to add to that familiar dynamic.
- 20New York Daily NewsNew York Daily NewsLet’s just say director John Moore’s new thriller I.T. should be lost in cyberspace — not filling up an hour and a half of your life.
- 16The PlaylistOktay Ege KozakThe PlaylistOktay Ege KozakIf it came out in the ’90s, I.T. would have been a silly distraction. In this day and age, it’s a colossal waste of time, a 14K dial-up in the time of fiber optic.
- 0Village VoiceSherilyn ConnellyVillage VoiceSherilyn ConnellyWhatever cautionary point I.T. may be trying to make about privacy gets lost in the formulaic ugliness, and not even the constant stream of facepalm moments make it entertaining or watchable.