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Summary Three brilliant visionaries set off in a charged battle for the future in The Current War, the epic story of the cutthroat competition that literally lit up the modern world. Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) is on the verge of bringing electricity to Manhattan with his radical new DC technology. On the eve of triumph, his plans are...
The Current War
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Summary Three brilliant visionaries set off in a charged battle for the future in The Current War, the epic story of the cutthroat competition that literally lit up the modern world. Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) is on the verge of bringing electricity to Manhattan with his radical new DC technology. On the eve of triumph, his plans are...
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Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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1 Review
80% Mixed
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
42
10% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
80% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Despite the filmmakers investing so much time in unnecessary biopic exposition, the whole is an exciting and informative history lesson.
This a watchably stylised period film, with interesting visual setpieces and faces looming up at us out of intricately contrived backgrounds.
Gomez-Rejon’s The Current War is unfortunately neutralized by Mitnick’s artless script.
The truth is that a movie about deeply personal obsessions can’t work if it doesn’t have some of its own, and the prevailing mood of The Current War is indifference.
It benefits from a smart, snappy script and a well-rounded cast, and gives its director the chance to employ virtually every camera trick known to man. What it can’t do, however, is generate even the slightest bit of interest in what happens to any of its characters.
For all its aggressive energy, The Current War is an uninvolving bore, making it unlikely to measure up as the kind of Oscar-baity prestige entry The Weinstein Co. obviously had in mind.
The Current War forces viewers to spend so much time wading through its aesthetic that it becomes easy to lose track of its ideas, or grow too bored of them to bother following along.
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