Disconnect 2012

     This film is divided into three separate overlapping dramas.  A former marine damages his credit by gambling online.  His wife, Paula, turns to a social-networking site for comfort after the death of their young son.  A teenage boy becomes the victim of a prank staged by two other teens at school.  It doesn’t stop until he hangs himself, his sister saves him but he’s in a coma in the hospital.  An ambitious TV reporter starts investigating an online prostitution racket.  She makes promises she can’t keep and the FBI becomes involved.

     Trying to do too much waters down this film.  You don’t become involved with the characters, too many stories and too many people.  The connection in the stories involves electronic devices, laptops, ipads, cell phones.  3* (This movie is OK)

115 min, Drama directed by Henry Alex Rubin with Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Alexander Skarsgard, Paul Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Honah Bobo, Frank Grillo, Andrea Riseborough, Max Thieriot, Colin Ford.

Note:  Blockbuster 1 ½*, imdb 7.6 out of 10, 68% critic 77% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.