Paranoia (2013 film)

Paranoia

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Robert Luketic
Produced by Alexandra Milchan
Scott Lambert
Deepak Nayar
Screenplay by Barry Levy
Jason Dean Hall
Based on Paranoia 
by Joseph Finder
Starring Liam Hemsworth
Gary Oldman
Amber Heard
Harrison Ford
Lucas Till
Embeth Davidtz
Julian McMahon
Josh Holloway
Richard Dreyfuss
Music by Junkie XL
Cinematography David Tattersall
Edited by Priscilla Nedd-Friendly
Production
company
Distributed by Relativity Media
Release dates
  • August 16, 2013 (2013-08-16)
Running time
 115 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $15–$35 million[1][2]
Box office $13,785,015[2]

Paranoia is an American thriller film directed by Robert Luketic. Barry L. Levy and Jason Dean Hall wrote the screenplay, loosely based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Joseph Finder. It stars Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman, Amber Heard, and Harrison Ford.

The film was released on August 16, 2013, and was a critical failure as well as a box office bomb.

Plot

Adam Cassidy is a low-level inventor who works for a corporation run by Nicholas Wyatt. After being fired for insubordination, Adam uses the company's credit card to pay for bottle service for his friends at a club. Wyatt and his enforcer, Miles Meachum, blackmail Adam into becoming a corporate spy for Wyatt by threatening to have him arrested for fraud.

Adam is trained by Judith Bolton and infiltrates a company run by Wyatt's former mentor, Jock Goddard. He provides Goddard, who stole several of Wyatt's ideas, with an advanced software able to hack into cellphones, with potential military applications. FBI Agent Gamble interrogates Adam, revealing that three other employees of Wyatt who transferred to Goddard's company were found dead, but Adam ignores him.

Adam finds out Emma Jennings, a woman he met during the party, is the Director of Marketing of Goddard's company. He initiates a relationship with Emma in order to steal files about Goddard's upcoming projects. Wyatt threatens to kill Adam's father, Frank Cassidy, if Adam doesn't steal a revolutionary prototype cellphone developed by Goddard. Adam later finds out Meachum and Bolton are monitoring him, so he destroys the cameras in his apartment. In retaliation, Meachum runs over Adam's friend, Kevin, with a car, nearly killing him. Adam is given 48 hours to steal the prototype.

Adam uses Emma's thumbprint lifted from a spoon to gain security access to the company's vault. He is confronted there by Goddard, who intends to take over Wyatt's company with evidence that Adam was acting as Wyatt's spy. Emma finds out Adam used her. Adam recruits Kevin to help him. A meeting is set with Wyatt and Goddard, where it is revealed that Bolton has spied against Wyatt on Goddard's behalf. Both men speak of the crimes they have committed to sabotage each other's companies.

Adam has secretly used software to transmit their conversation to Kevin, whose computer recordings are turned over to the FBI. Goddard, Wyatt, Bolton and Meachum are arrested by Gamble, while Adam is released for contributing to the FBI's investigation. He reconciles with Emma and opens a small startup company in Brooklyn with Kevin and their friends.

Cast

Production

Principal photography commenced on location in Philadelphia in July 2012, and returned for further filming at the end of November 2012.[3] The first trailer was released on June 6, 2013.[4]

Release

Paranoia was a box office bomb.[5] The film debuted at #13 in the United States, generating only $3.5 million in its first weekend and going on to gross a total of $7,385,015 domestically.[2] It made $6,400,000 in other countries for a worldwide total of $13,785,015, roundly failing to recoup its $35 million budget.[2] Variety magazine listed Paranoia as one of "Hollywood's biggest box office bombs of 2013".[6]

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 6% of 100 critics have given Paranoia a positive review, with an average rating of 3.8/10. Their consensus is: "Clichéd and unoriginal, Paranoia is a middling techno-thriller with indifferent performances and a shortage of thrills."[7] Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote, "Not since Taylor Lautner has Hollywood ogled a pretty boy this vacant and poorly prepared."[8] Andrew Barker of Variety wrote, "No one seems paranoid enough in this indifferently made, nearly tension-free thriller."[9] Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter called it "slick but muddled".[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Cole, Jay. "Fisker Karma Has Its Swan Song In New Harrison Ford Thriller – Paranoia (video)". InsideEVs.com. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Paranoia (2013)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2013-08-17.-video/
  3. ↑ "Liam Hemsworth back in Philly to continue filming ‘Paranoia’". November 29, 2012.
  4. ↑ "'Paranoia' First Trailer - Liam Hemsworth Beds Amber Heard". Film-summary.com. 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
  5. ↑ Smith, Grady (August 18, 2013). "Box office disaster: Harrison Ford's 'Paranoia' has the worst debut of 2013 (and his career)". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 8, 2014.
  6. ↑ Variety Staff (December 26, 2013). "Hollywood’s Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2013". Variety. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Paranoia (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
  8. ↑ Holden, Stephen (August 15, 2013). "A High-Tech Mole Living the High Life". The New York Times. p. C6. Retrieved August 22, 2013.
  9. ↑ Barker, Andrew (2013-08-09). "Film Review: 'Paranoia'". Variety. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
  10. ↑ Farber, Stephen (2013-08-09). "Paranoia: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2014-04-08.

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