saidintime

It's a cool idea and the film maker managed to wrangle up some big names however it looks like they had the budget of a film student with rich parents - so lots of toy guns, awful effects from a laptop, terrible acting, and a silliness throughout that makes the whole thing painful to watch.

All said I did sit through it (although I had my phone in hand reading and texting for most of it) so maybe there is something buried in it all that is redeeming.

Still, I feel dumber for having watched it. This is definitely one to miss - just watch the trailer and nothing more if interested.

Edge of your seat thriller that successfully entertains.

The over-weight Russell Crowe bad guy works well, his 'unhinged' body adds to his menacing presence. When he throws his weight around it's also believable.

A solid thriller that looks great and feels quality. Performances are convincing and I was hooked to the end.

A one sided film with a clear agenda.

It gathers megalomaniacs who seek to claim credit for winning elections without examining how effective their methods were to shaping election outcomes and the extent to which the loosing sides used similar techniques.

Most critically it does not look at money spent/donations - a bigger decider in election outcomes.

The fact is leave.eu conducted a better campaign, with characters such as Nigel Farrage & Borris Johnson pushing the Brexit argument clearly on a variety of media outlets and the remain side failing to present it's argument. The Brexit decision has also been back up by 2x subsequent elections. Similar things could be said of the Trump campaign and the orange man's use of twitter.

'The Great Hack' is a dud that fails to tell the whole story or clearly articulate how limited or effective targeted advertising was on election outcomes - the reason for this is that it is proven to have had a very limited impact.