Making a small mistake challenges Adam Cassidy, an employee at Wyatt Telecom corporation, where he does his best to avoid being fired out, makes him struggles, as the CEO becomes angry of him and decides to blackmail him and benefits from his fear of losing the work, by making him as his spy on the corporation.
Paranoia, a ho-hum thriller about corporate spying in the high-tech world, comes off as a lot more preposterous than paranoid, and it takes no more than a few frames for the eye rolling to commence.
It's a premise that stands or falls on the tense fate of a charismatic lead and dialogue that does not clang right off the screen; a woeful lack of both ensures Paranoia more than falls -- it collapses.
In a movie about a new generation's hunger to topple the old guard, pretty boy Hemsworth is outclassed by his veteran costars, who get more mileage from baring their teeth than he does baring his chest.
