Tesla

This movie looks like it was made with 50 bucks. Ethan hawk was clumsy and dull. His attempts to look instense and intelligent flopped terribly. It pains me that such an amazing story, about such an incredible individual, was treated so shoddily.

It's a little too thinly drawn for my taste but there's no denying Almereyda's ambition and the unconventional approach is certainly a refreshing choice for a biopic.

That's one strange biographic documentary

While the acting was good, the script and editing resulted in a film that's hard to get into, and then takes a surreal turn. It starts out feeling like one of those documentary videos playing on a screen at a museum, but then attempted to go into drama, and then goes full avant-garde. Without spoiling anything, at one point the character of Edison pulls out his iPhone while standing at a bar. I think the director was trying to say something, but he hadn't earned this audience's forbearance.

A classic for the true story of the Tesla

Look...you ready didn't need to awaken me in the middle of this movie to tell me that I was missing the movie. I'd already seen enough...🥱

I found this original in that a narrator would interrupt and bring trivia about the subject. Also, the film is joking. This film is more a piece of theatre than a film. There is a need to know Tesla more because he was stupendous and the world (and the US) owes so much to him.

Tesla is both an audacious film and a failed one. It's bold and interesting but never feels compelling or complete. Ethan Hawke is great though as the visionary inventor Nikola Tesla. Set during the 19th century the film shows the initial battle between Thomas Edison and Tesla in the so called 'current war'. It plots the ups and downs of Tesla's career, a man of great intelligence and principle. It does fall into the trap though of a lot of biopics of trying to cover too much ground, which makes the film a bit stretched and weak. The unique part of the film is the narration by Anne Morgan. She oftens speaks straight to camera and even has a laptop to discuss the times and the careeer of Tesla. It's a different approach and works to a certain extent. Much like the film itself.

An interesting story which I don't tire of hearing told. This depiction was a bit stilted. There was a bit too much narrated exposition which became a bit distracting in it's volume / pervasiveness. Entertaining none-the-less.

I found it to be a little boring and not sure which direction the movie was headed!