Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Console best movie i've ever seen.
Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
Chris The movie revolves around perhaps the greatest problem in computer science P vs. NP. Most things we rely on in the world, assume that P is not equal to NP -- that creating a code is way easier than cracking it, that figuring out whether a cure for cancer is effective is way easier than finding the cure in the first place. Traveling Salesman doesn't analyze the problem. Instead, it asks, what if P == NP? In other words, what if codes are just as easy to crack as they are to create? What if finding a cure for cancer is just as easy as showing a cure you've found works. Most scientists today don't believe this is true, but it has not yet been proved, which makes for an interesting, what if it's true discussion.The dialog is good, exploring the ramifications of a P == NP world. Somehow, it left me wanting more.
Paul Hebert Largely entertaining set piece featuring a taut claustrophobic confrontation between a team of elite mathematicians who've cracked a problem (i.e. The Traveling Salesman) that promises to weaken all cryptographic systems fatally with world-shaking consequences, and the increasingly sinister government bureaucrat alternately badgering then threatening the group to sign lucrative and iron-clad hush agreements.Torn between the desire for public fame and recognition, and the ethical dilemma that their N=NP proof could represent an information weapon capable of enormous harm, the team led by renowned math prodigy 'No 1', spars verbally with the bureaucrat and each other over whether to sign over their historic achievement and thereby lose all claim to it - and to affect the terrible ways in which it might be used by the government.This is by no means an 'action' film. Your enjoyment of the film will be directly correlated with your familiarity with the type of cryptographic/NP-complete problem that the team has 'solved', but from which they must now disavow any further knowledge. I rather enjoyed the closing images of No. 1 walking the now-idle railroad track, having symbolically become 'The Traveling Salesman' personified.The rapid clip arguments, cajoling and very personal threats made over the conference room table are mostly quite good if you keep pace - but I can't help wondering if our intrepid mathematicians realize that whether they sign the non-disclosure agreement or not, the government interest in keeping their discovery absolutely secret makes them all dead men walking?
patrick-and-thompson Far from being a "smart" movie like many reviewers here praise it, this movie is written by people playing make believe with characters who are suppose to be far more intelligent than the writers can claim to be. As a result, the dialogue is laughable. I've literally never seen a movie try SO HARD to be edgy and smart and yet be so vague and shallow. The characters in this movie are don't resemble real people, especially not top mathematicians and computer scientists. They're a fantasy of the creators who pretend that they know what it's like to be really super duper smart and work on something really super duper important. So we get a collection of vague, generic, shallow musings of the type that non-geniuses apparently think geniuses spend their time thinking about. And the characters always talk as if the audience is in the room but can't be let in on the secret. Just speak directly about what you're talking about instead of making indirect references to everything. But okay, that's not nearly as edgy and smart so we can't have that right guys? The pretentiousness is overbearing. Not to mention the occasional blatantly incorrect reference or analogy (demonstrating that the writers don't really understand the problem well enough, which makes me wonder why they're so caught up trying to make super smart and deep dialogue about a problem they don't understand?). Stop trying so hard, people. And let's stop making absurd caricatures of math genius.
karmabandrocks I believe it is a travesty that this film has such a low score on here. The only thing I can attribute it to is that today's viewers have an attention span of a raccoon trapped in a treasure chest. I suppose the fact that I am a very big fan of this type of film--and what I mean by that is chock full intelligent dialog--may also have something to do with that. There are two other films that have always been in my top 10 favorite films list because of this attribute and they are 12 Angry Men, and The Man From Earth (not to be confused with the man who fell to earth.) Basically a few people trapped in a room for most of the movie discussing a monumental mathematical proof that has huge implications for just about everything and everyone on the planet, and the moral responsibility they have as they are in cahoots with the government through funding. If you have an attention span, love existential and philosophical discussions, or just enjoy movies that make you think then you will love this film as I did. Please help this film get the rating it deserves.
