The direction comes from David Fincher who has had variable success, all the way from "Alien 3" to Se7en", but here he is right on form with a flashy, but tightly structured, presentation that never fails to command your attention and interest. It succeeds because of a magical combination of accomplished direction, scintillating dialogue and superb acting. It succeeds because it is not about the technology but about creativity and conflict and about friendship and betrayal. A convoluted tale of raw conflict on the origins of a new type of web site should not lend itself to an expensive movie as opposed to a television documentary. A story centred on a teenager who becomes the world's youngest billionaire, a web site that reaches a million users in two years, and a cast of real life characters with names like Zuckerberg and Winklevoss just shouldn't be possible. This is a film which simply shouldn't work, but it does - magnificently.
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