The Current War2017
The Current War (2017)
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Critic Consensus: The Current War is powered by an outstanding cast and an intriguing, history-inspired story, which makes this drama's low wattage all the more shocking.
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Cast
as Thomas Edison/
as Leo
as Marguerite Westinghouse, Marguerite Erskine
as Gladys
as Beti
as Maurice Manesburg
as Annabelle Worthington
as Mr. Faulk
as Reverend Vincent
as Elijah McCoy
as Mr. Burton
as Franklin Pope
as Mary Edison
as Young Dash Edison
as J.P. Morgan, JP Morgan
as White House Butler
as Nikola Tesla
as Dorothy Brookes
as Lewis Latimer
as Sherman Quincy
as Reporter
Critic Reviews for The Current War
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The film falls back on the myth of modernity being born in the laps of practical, native-born American ingenuity.
The Current War seems to have suffered from its tumultuous production history. Or, just maybe, it was always destined to be this ungainly.
Top-hatted, frock-coated, mutton-chopped chaps burbling on about the relative advantages of the alternating current versus direct current system does not, in fact, make for electrifying drama.
The film's release was duly paused and in the two years since there have been reshoots, five new scenes added and ten minutes cut from the original Toronto version. It's still a dirge. It's flat and repetitive.
It's so busily shot, and the camera is always trying to do something...the score can feel intrusive...all of that at once was so distracting, and I was struggling to focus on the dialogue.
Given the subject matter, it's a disappointingly unstimulating affair.
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