edgalarza
This film is just plain awful. It has Horrendous acting and a weak storyline with little real world techie details. Amateurish camera work. Plot holes bigger than a Kardashian's loose vayaya. The first 30 minutes is a hacker's nonsense bragging drivel. There doesn't seem to be a honest attempt at delivery a story. The actors perform their dialog as though they were being read from cue cards. My personal feeling is they began improvising a script as they went along instead of having one carefully written before they began writing. As others here have said, you will be better off choosing a different movie to watch. This film should have never been made.
Lorax_0
I loved this, it's smart, well shot and best of all is free to stream on youtube. You don't lose anything by giving it ago and if you liked it you can head to the films site and throw the filmmakers a deserving donation, or not, your choice. Sure some of the acting isn't the best and there are a few weird shot choices but these are minor things for a movie that on the whole is very engaging and watchable. Anyone who says the hacking themes and dialogue is done poorly don't know what they're talking about, the film is endorsed by Steve Wozniak and it's miles better than every Hollywood portrayal of hacking. It reminded me of a lower key Mr.Robot without all the pilfering from a certain Brad Pitt movie. There's also a recent German hacking movie called Who Am I that obviously had a bigger budget but isn't as good or believable as this. From what I can see this was somewhat ahead of the curve too, coming out in 2014.
mrtomblake
For me Algorithm gets two stars for effort. They got it made. However the problems begin from the very first scene. An interrogation scene like all other interrogation scenes. Containing exhausted lines of dialogue, and the clichéd good cop bad cop routine. It never really recovers from there. The main character is arrogant, and acts superior to others. He is proud that he has an almost empty life. In any other film he would be a loser. Sadly in this film he's supposed to be the hero. He provides endless exposition through voice over. I wrongly assumed it would stop in the opening act. Unfortunately the voice over is constant throughout. This reminded me of Robert McKee's rant from the film Adaptation. Voice over is sloppy writing. Algorithm feels like a film where the director is challenging the audience not to like it. It has a repetitive humdrum music score. The beat stays the same even when the steaks have been raised. The cinematography is bland, with boring beige colours and limited use of light. The director would rather the audience engage with the issues the film raises rather than making something entertaining. The problem with this philosophy is that many mainstream films can do both. Algorithm is a Bourne Identity film with all the fun sucked out of it. Just because it's possible to watch it on-line for free, doesn't mean you should.
klickonn
This is a great example of a movie that will interest a certain type of person. Make a movie about surfing and even though its garbage many surfers will love it. If you're a hardcore nerd, conspiracy theorist or just anti-establishment then Algorithm will probably appeal to you. Everyone else, that is 99% of viewers, should pass.As a narrated film we have to endure the lead actor's endless rambling thoughts throughout, on top of that we get some 'Hacker's Principles' - oooh they've stumbled upon something big, now they must find out what it is and expose the authorities for the bad guys they are.As the movie progresses it becomes ridiculously implausible with miscast characters. We're supposed to believe a top-secret agency working for the government has no security with a sole receptionist sitting at a table typing on a laptop. Of course anyone can walk in - or out for that matter.The only saving grace for this film is the character Decimate who adds some humor (and a second star to my review), otherwise its as bland as you can get. At the end to call it an anti-climax is an understatement, the synopsis says our man is "thrust into a revolution", whoever wrote that should be sued for misinformation.In fact its hard to think of a movie that accomplishes less than Algorithm, but then again after watching some may beef-up their passwords so all is not lost.
AD
