This completely predictable "thriller" stars Pierce Brosnan as Mike Regan - the head of an airline which is about to go public, and James Frecheville as Ed Porter - an IT temp working at Mike's company who so impresses Mike that he brings him into his home to fix the wifi. Yup. That's how this all starts. While he's there, Ed develops a fixation with Mike's daughter Kaitlyn (Stefanie Scott) - which Mike and his wife Rose (Anna Friel) don't like - because Ed's like 11 years older than Kaitlyn and, well, he's a bit creepy. He tries to crash family events, he shows up unannounced where he shouldn't be. Eventually, Mike fires Ed and tells him to stay away. But Ed has hacked into the Regan's "smart home" system, so that he can see and hear everything going on and control all sorts of things from his apartment - which looks a bit like a starship bridge from Star Trek. Eventually, we find out that Ed is a lot creepy, as he takes his revenge against Mike for the way he feels he's been mistreated.Yes, it's very predictable. A lot of it doesn't make sense and doesn't seem particularly well thought out. When Mike hires a guy to "fix" the Ed problem, he talks to him on the phone while lying in his bed. Why doesn't Ed know about it? Doesn't he have the house wired? Shouldn't he have heard? And unless I missed something, Kaitlyn actually kind of liked Ed - so why did Ed target her? I could understand him going after Mike and Rose - but why Kaitlyn? There are a variety of other things that made little sense, but those are the two I remembered most.The movie leads up to one of the most unbelievable confrontations I've ever seen, and then the movie kind of ends with a whimper as all goes back to normal. To be perfectly blunt, this isn't really worth your time. The performances were uneven. There's a bit of a reflection on privacy in this, and it might succeed in making you a bit paranoid if you've gone big time into the whole "smart house" thing. (2/10)

I loved this film. In the sense that the acting was OK, the writing was good (Ish) and the general plot was entertaining.Why 3/10? Because of the lack of any police use. Nobody called the police when he kept turning up to family events. The police didn't catch him doing any of the hacking stuff.He doesn't call in IT people to fix his house or phone.Just the lack of common sense from the protagonist annoyed me despite the rest of the film being half decent.

There seems to be a pattern with Netflix original's which can be delineated as follows. 1. A reasonably interesting premise. 2. The opening half an hour where the premise is established. 3 The rest of the film which turns out to be a bit rubbish, causing one to enquire, is this what most film's would be like without the likes of Spielberg, Cameron, or any director for that matter who would take a reasonable idea and makes it interesting, different or subtle. This Netflix original follows such a pattern. Despite some early pertinent implications regarding the use of modern technology it quickly sheds the potential to be fresh or distinctive instead wrapping itself in the generic thriller blanket and becoming a one dimensional pantomime far too easily. Character exploration is flushed in favour of a predictable prosaic snore fest.

Sometimes you have to wonder why some thrillers are being made the exact same way over and over again. Yes this has the added "Big Brother" (who's a crazy person and not related by blood) theme going, but other than that, the clichés are running wild. And not necessarily in a good way. There are strings to this and confused feelings that could have been explored (private taping) more deeply - no pun intended.But the movie opts for the easy, "suspensful" way out. The warning signs are there early and while Pierce Brosnan himself is always able to come off as likable, his character seems to be very oblivious to say the least. It could have been way easier and logic alone would have prevented most of what transpires ... but then again, we wouldn't have this movie ... wait that wouldn't have been that bad now ...