“The Social Network” (2010), was one of Aaron Sorkin’s best screenplays. Along with other Sorkin screenplay like that include a much larger volume of dialogue, “A Few Good Men” (1992), “Molly’s Game” (2017), The Social Network was about the unlikely rise of Mark Zuckerberg from a Harvard student, to creating the largest Social Network in the world with Facebook. Facebook is now known as Meta and has the largest market caps (currently 1.83 trillion). Throughout most of this film, Zuckerberg was never depicted in a very positive light, which is now even truer with his new movie “The Social Reckoning”, that Sorkin wrote and directed.

We all know going into any Sorkin movie that he is a more of a “tell rather than show” screenwriters. Almost all Sorkin’s screenplays are much longer than standard, with A Few Good Men, 140 pages, Molly’s Game 160 pages and The Social Network 178 pages. This is also true with his latest screenplay, which is a sequel to The Social Network, which bears no resemblance to the original movie. This movie has a series of unexpected ideas, that I thought mostly did not work. Throughout this entire movie Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong) is in a interview room where he is asked a myriad of practice questions for an upcoming Congressional hearing by Facebook’s crisis-management adviser, Raya Akinola (Wunmi Mosaku) with some intense moments scenes with Charlie Galligan (Bill Burr), a former Facebook advisor. I would rather have seen Zuckerberg working in his offices at Facebook, handing the many problems of the day, and facing the Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) who is in contact with a Facebook whistle blower Francis Haugen (Mikey Madison)