I.T. is a 2016 thriller film starring Pierce Brosnan, James Frecheville, Anna Friel, and Stefanie Scott. Brosnan is Mike Regan, a self-made aviation millionaire planning to expand his empire by launching an Uber-style app for private jets. Regan seems to have it all, a dutiful wife (Anna Friel), a beautiful teenage daughter (Stefanie Scott) and a modern state-of-the-art smart home with all mod cons. However, things start to go terribly wrong when the firm’s I.T guy Ed Porter (James Frecheville) is brought in by Regan to the family home to help with some tech issues.
When Porter takes this as an opportunity to worm his way into his boss’s life, tempers start to fray resulting in Porter being fired from his job. Feeling dejected and snubbed, Porter takes it upon himself to destroy his boss’s reputation and everything he worked so hard for by using his vast I.T knowledge. Cornered and unable to second-guess Porter’s motivations, Regan takes things onto his own hands by playing his former employee at his own game.
For Mike Regan (Pierce Brosnan), he has reached it with the help of the top of the line technology. doing everything for him making him one of the best in his game, but that all has changed when he met Ed Porter, an I.T. consultant for his own company.
In a world where technology runs freely, a private man cannot hide himself even if he wants to. In sake of saving his life,his family & everything he owns, he needs to play the game in all of he can to remove the psychotic I.T. consultant he himself first wrongly welcomed.
The film presents another unrealistic situation with regards to IT practitioners. While the film deals with a very real and compelling issue such as privacy, the way it was done was just a tad unrealistic and more tailored for a movie plot. Of course, this is just nit-picking but it would’ve been better if they dwelved more on the technical aspects of smart homes, hacking, and privacy of such devices. Instead, they just put a regular hacker-looking, creepy guy that just types on a computer and somehow does something what a hacker would take a long time doing. This also reinforces the stereotype that IT practitioners are creepy, stalker dudes with no social life, and can hack into things with ease.
It's a fun premise even if there are so many logic flaws and inconsistencies, that if it were a drinking game to take a swig after finding one, you'd be face-down drunk by the very predictable third act.
When Porter takes this as an opportunity to worm his way into his boss’s life, tempers start to fray resulting in Porter being fired from his job. Feeling dejected and snubbed, Porter takes it upon himself to destroy his boss’s reputation and everything he worked so hard for by using his vast I.T knowledge. Cornered and unable to second-guess Porter’s motivations, Regan takes things onto his own hands by playing his former employee at his own game.
For Mike Regan (Pierce Brosnan), he has reached it with the help of the top of the line technology. doing everything for him making him one of the best in his game, but that all has changed when he met Ed Porter, an I.T. consultant for his own company.
In a world where technology runs freely, a private man cannot hide himself even if he wants to. In sake of saving his life,his family & everything he owns, he needs to play the game in all of he can to remove the psychotic I.T. consultant he himself first wrongly welcomed.
The film presents another unrealistic situation with regards to IT practitioners. While the film deals with a very real and compelling issue such as privacy, the way it was done was just a tad unrealistic and more tailored for a movie plot. Of course, this is just nit-picking but it would’ve been better if they dwelved more on the technical aspects of smart homes, hacking, and privacy of such devices. Instead, they just put a regular hacker-looking, creepy guy that just types on a computer and somehow does something what a hacker would take a long time doing. This also reinforces the stereotype that IT practitioners are creepy, stalker dudes with no social life, and can hack into things with ease.
It's a fun premise even if there are so many logic flaws and inconsistencies, that if it were a drinking game to take a swig after finding one, you'd be face-down drunk by the very predictable third act.
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