content: The software technology was unnecessarily anthropomorphic and silly, as is typical in a Hollywood treatment. That mishandling in turn discredited the supposedly genius software programmer and protagonist of the story. The characters are thinly developed in stereotypical fashion and the writing was only serviceable. Rather than write a great book and let Hollywood make the cheapened low-brow movie version, the author just wrote the cheapened low-brow version directly (probably hoping to facilitate a movie deal). I was disappointed.