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Metascore
Generally Favorable
positive
5(63%)
mixed
3(38%)
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Showing 8 Critic Reviews
80
That the e-graveyard holds as many good ideas as bad is the cold comfort that Chin's film serves up with style and empathy.
75
There were a lot of people who came to regret investing their time and money in Park's brash dream. You won't be one of them.
70
The story told by e-dreams is inherently compelling, full of dark humor drawn from a deep well of hubris and historical irony, but the film would be a lot sharper had the filmmakers not fallen under Park's charismatic cyber-spell.
70
Plays out in quite a different offscreen context than did last year's similarly themed sleeper "Startup.com."
63
Entertaining as he is, there are many times when you wish you'd been given a few more facts and numbers so you could understand what the young CEO and his colleagues were celebrating or bemoaning.
60
The film delivers what it promises: A look at the "wild ride" that ensues when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops, cell phones and sketchy business plans.
60
The movie is a little claustrophobic -- a marathon of conference calls, frenzied pointing and clicking, and office pep talks.
50
Misses the boat by essentially acting as a positive press release for the now-defunct Kozmo.com.
