Studio - 101 Studios
Starring - Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland, Katherine Waterston, Matthew Macfadyen, Tuppence Middleton
Writer - Michael Mitnick
Director - Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Release - 4 October 2019
I do not understand how this movie did not make a dent at the cinemas. I guess the studio really did not bother marketing it. This movie was beautifully made, brilliantly executed, with a top notch cast.
For the first time I was understanding how electricity was commercialized. And I didn't even know Tesla was involved until now.
Every scene of this movie was framed like an Oscar movie by Chung Chung Hoon. The score transported you to that era, and between Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon's competing with each other you will be glued to the screen.
And the two main characters don't even share the same screen all that much, but when they did, I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. That's also because director Gomez-Rejon created this intense competition between the two that you couldn't help but to take in their every exchange; especially that final one where it was just both of them talking to each other.
Katherine Waterston played the very important support system in George Westinghouse's life, and made you feel that gap in Thomas Edison's. Nicholas Hoult playing young Nikola Tesla added another dimension into the story where I was not expecting.
I thought this movie was robbed of the success that it deserved, where some accolades should have been bestowed upon it.
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