Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning wanted to be the defining film about our poisoned feed era. Instead, critics say, it's so vapid and disinterested it defeats even hatred — a bore with no insight worth arguing with.
The 2010 original crackled because Facebook felt new and conquerable. Sixteen years later the machine won, and the sequel has nothing to say about it. Jeremy Strong does the work; the script doesn't.
Every artist knows this exact flop: the follow-up to the hungry debut, made from inside the mansion about the streets. Hunger can't be faked, on screen or on wax. The Social Network was basement tapes; The Social Reckoning is a board meeting.
Sources: CBC News. Context from the Young Hadene newsroom.
Critics say no — empty where the original was electric.
Jeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg.