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Videos & Photos

  • Official Trailer
  • Trailer 1

Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

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. Benedict Cumberbatch is Thomas Edison, the celebrity inventor on the verge of bringing electricity to Manhattan with his radical new DC technology. On the eve of triumph, his plans are upended by charismatic businessman George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), who believes he and his partner, the upstart genius Nikolai Tesla (Nicholas Hoult), have a superior idea for how to rapidly electrify America: with AC current. As Edison and Westinghouse grapple for who will power the nation, they spark one of the first and greatest corporate feuds in American history, establishing for future Titans of Industry the need to break all the rules. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) with Producer Timur Bekmambetov, Basil Iwanyk and Executive Producer Martin Scorsese, The Current War also stars Katherine Waterston, Tom Holland, Matthew Macfadyen and Tuppence Middleton.

Cast

  • Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Michael Shannon
  • Nicholas Hoult
  • Katherine Waterston
  • Tuppence Middleton
  • Tom Holland
  • Matthew Macfadyen
  • Conor MacNeill
  • Tom Fisher

Atom User Reviews

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Verified Review

Great cast, but post-production seemed to have cut out like 10 years of history 😂 (1890-1900)

RB
Ryan B
Verified Review

confusing, could have been better if things were explained better

MK
Marvin K

Metacritic

50
Oct 24, 2019

Any curiosity surrounding the film may have been misplaced – it’s a bit of a bore.

Metacritic review by James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
75
Oct 22, 2019

The Current War is even better than it has to be. Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and cinematographer Chung-hoon Chung give the film a swooping elegance, so that shots that start as close-ups gracefully glide into medium shots, and medium shots give way to vistas. The camera is always moving in a way that suggests grace and flow.

Metacritic review by Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
58
Sep 14, 2017

The Current War employs actors capable of their own eccentric stylizations, and gives them very little leeway to make the material their own. Gomez-Rejon keeps snatching it back with every offbeat composition idea he can muster.

Metacritic review by Jesse Hassenger
Jesse Hassenger
The A.V. Club