Appropriately bold and ambitious, Tesla takes a number of risks that don't always pay off -- but Ethan Hawke's performance makes those flaws easier to forgive. Tesla's main squeeze Anne (Eve Hewson of "The Knick"), the daughter of financier J. Pierpont Morgan, narrates the story, and serves as the anchor point for Almereyda's self-aware asides.
Full Review Chris Knight National Post Tesla review - portrait of an inventor out of step with his time. (Curiously, though, the film is a stickler for period detail when it comes to the dimly lit drawing rooms where most scenes . 'Tesla' Review: A Postmodern Biopic for a Modern Genius Ethan Hawke stars as the pioneering inventor in a period piece filled with Google searches, karaoke sing-alongs and imagination to spare TESLA is very entertaining, but punctuated by a strange scene of Tesla singing a modern song at the end and another strange scene with some profanities. 'Tesla': Movie Review CBN.com X Writer-director Michael Almereyda's unconventional approach to telling Tesla's life story isn't so much electric as shockingly disappointing. An eccentric take on the revolutionary inventor is perhaps an appropriate tribute.
Certainly, as the film points out, Tesla didn't always know how to communicate his ideas compared to his more marketing-savvy competitors. Michael Almereyda's film Tesla, starring Ethan Hawke and Kyle MacLachlan, is a non-traditional biopic about Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla's struggle over the future of electricity. It. 'Tesla' Review: Daring Film Captures The Spirit Of An Unorthodox Inventor Ethan Hawke plays the famed Serbian American inventor in a new film that reminds us what a modern creature Tesla was — a . The answer is Nikola Tesla, pioneer of AC electricity and wireless communication. Movie Review Netflix is going on a mad one this weekend. Movie Review A White, White Day's slow-burn revenge.
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The jumps in tone in the film are jarring as Tesla is dreaming of Mars in one scene, then asking for money from J. Movie review: 'Tesla' is a scattered biopic that could. Is Tesla able to hold its crown as producer of the best all-electric vehicle?
Tesla movie reviews & Metacritic score: Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges. Posted by Laura Venning Published. . But audacious flourishes sadly can't counteract the fact that this is a very talky film; much of the action takes place in murky, cigar smoke-filled rooms in which characters spout complicated, albeit necessary, exposition. Sequences in which Tesla gets to actually.