Technological thrillers

[RaymondLeggs]

Why does it seem so had to write a good tech thriller that doesn't come off as anticlimactic, or gimicky
Or worse the movie gets so caught up in the machinery,and tech that the story takes a back seat.

Examples, The sum of all fears, Eagle Eye, Stealth, Firewall, Tom Clancy's Net-force.

I like these types of movies, but why do most of these movies kind of go haywire in the second half of the second act or they rush the third act to the point that you feel like you just watched a TV pilot or something..



Net force. What happened to the internet? how are they going to cover up a raid on the whitehouse? Someone had to hear allt hat gunfire.

Sum of all fears. whats the whole point of a war with Russia what do the Nazi terrorist actually seek to gain?

 

[Alcove Audio]

....why do most of these movies kind of go haywire...

Because, as you pointed out, they lose the human connection and focus on the tech and special effects. Great films are about people and human interactions, not about things.

Sum of all fears. whats the whole point of a war with Russia what do the Nazi terrorist actually seek to gain?

It makes sense when you read the book. The film had little in common with the book except the title and character names. The basic premise was completely distorted. BTW, in the novel it was Islamic radicals working in concert with Marxist extremists. The concept the bad guys had was that the US and Russia would wipe each other out in a nuclear exchange; the Muslim radicals could would take over the Middle East, and the Marxist extremists would have their revenge on Russia for betraying Utopian Marxism.