The Social Reckoning: just a pale copy of The President’s Men (review)

Sixteen years after The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin reopens the Facebook file in a journalistic investigation film with an unfortunately very outdated style.

It’s not The Social Network 2. Not a sequel, but a “companion piece” – a “complementary work” according to Sony’s marketing formula. Superstar screenwriter Aaron Sorkin takes another look at the Mark Zuckerberg case, sixteen years after portraying him in nerd heartbroken and ruthless apprentice businessman in The Social Network. Nor Fincher, busy shooting another “companion piece” (the spin-off of Once upon a time in Hollywood written by Tarantino), nor Jesse Eisenberg, unforgettable interpreter of Zuckerberg, saw fit to come back, so Sorkin, who has since become a director The Great Game (2017), stuck to the directing himself, and replaced Eisenberg with Jeremy Strong, to whom he clearly left the reins on his neck – the actor of Succession is caught in The Social Reckoning in flagrante delicto method acting aggravated, playing Meta’s boss as an antisocial and robotic big bad, somewhere between Doctor Hell fromAustin Powers and a Hal (the crazy computer of 2001) who would have taken human form…..