Mike Regan seems to have a perfect life with a happy family and successful business. Everything changes when his advisor becomes cruel. So that, He uses high technology to harass Mike' family and destroys Mike's own company which makes Mike fight to protect his life.
There are some nice touches, but it unwinds into dullness and silliness and the hi-tech conceit is basically abandoned in favour of low-tech analogue violence and punch-ups.
This old-fashioned premise has been upgraded for the "smart house" era, but a plodding pace and a lack of technological specifics still make this picture about as state-of-the-art as a Commodore 64.
Beat by beat, it's exactly what you'd expect, right down to the camera's prurient interest in the dewy flesh of Stefanie Scott as the 17-year-old daughter.
A Good Day to Die Hard and Max Payne director John Moore has updated the notorious 2006 flop Firewall for the smartphone era with I.T. , and it's every bit as unpleasant as A Good Day to Die Hard and Max Payne.
For a film which purports to deal with issues of privacy, I.T falls short of making a convincing commentary about the subject, resorting instead to cliched tropes about modern technology.
