Review: 'The Social Netowrk' tells rocky origins of Facebook online site

The Social Network    PG  13          

            It would probably be pretentious to call this this Citizen Kane of the Internet, but as a dramatization of Mark Zuckerberg's idea of a social online site to rival Friendster and MySpace, it is one of the coolest new gen movies of the year, and should be up there with the big Oscar races come February when Oscar time rolls around. But by next year, many Academy people will have long forgotten, and to the net it will be like decades have gone by! Jesse Eisenberg does a 'Juno crossed with Zombieland' imitation of billionaire Zuckerberg in his origins from ivy league nerd to computing genius who borrows the ideas of friends and enemies to 'invent' a completely unabashed networking site for students, which in time makes him the richest youngest man in the world. Like Kane, he is both loved and hated. Unlike Kane, he is not so much a parody of Hearst as a living modern day Zorro of the internet. Sure Facebook his its quirks, but MySpace was a sell out to Fox and became suck ville. In the net, only the cool nerdy sites survive. I can see why Zuckerberg didn't like his portrayal in the story, but any A type computer genius is going to come off as an antihero and sometimes aloof. 
Review by Adam Browne