Look up 'Jenny Nicholson Justice League Bad' on YouTube for a great take-down of the movie.

'Pattern Recognition' is a wonderful study in writing with the use of present-progressive tense and other techniques. "Pouring boiling water." I read it only recently and thought the references to 'video footage' being dispersed and discussed in 'chat rooms' was oddly old-hat for Gibson. Then I saw the publish date of 2003 - two years before YouTube.

When a new (to me) software installer gets about halfway into it and then discovers an obscure issue, so it starts asking me what it should do. I'm like, "You're the smart one, YOU figure it out."

The one thing that drives a thriller is a plausible Evil Plan, so that part needs to be right. SPOILERS SPOILERS Evil Guy is able to directly manipulate the stock market to get $74 million in cash, but then sets up an elaborate plan to cause a catastrophe so he can bet on the futures market. Why doesn't he just keep manipulating the stock market directly? It was a fun enough ride as long as you don't tear yourself out of the story by letting your mind object to the implausibilities that keep stacking up. "Why did they get OUT of their car and just stand in the street to fire handguns at guys with machine guns?" "Because Thor needed motivation to make it personal." Bleah. I'm really tired of movies that murder innocents so the main character is motivated to do what he does.