Storyline
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
Directors
Cast
Matthew Macfadyen, Nicholas Hoult, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stanley Townsend, Colin Stinton, Craig Roberts, Michael Shannon, Harry Melling, Ekow Quartey, John Pierce Jones, Joseph Balderrama, Conor MacNeill, Katherine Waterston, John Schwab, Adam Pearce, Tom Holland, Tuppence Middleton, Iain McKee, Toby Williams, Pamela Betsy Cooper, Tim Steed, Celyn Jones, Nancy Crane, Damien Molony, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Martyn Mayger, Simon Connolly, Liza Ross, Robert-Anthony Artlett, Steven I. Dillard, Jason Matthewson, Christopher McMullen, Adam Lazarus, Steve Carroll, Kevin Millington, Will Irvine, Simon Manyonda, Jeremy Oliver, Phil Hodges, Tom Sweet, John Kinory, Tom Bell, Oliver Powell, Abigail Johns, Woody Norman, Faye Ormston, Benjamin Schnau, James Chalmers, Sophia Ally, Ben Mars, Greg Haiste, Katy Poulter, Jed Aukin, Michael Yates, Andy Cockell, Giacomo Joshua Brunelli, Nigel Wilcock, Jay William Whittington Barrette, Thor Janke, James Chipman, Gary Kiely, Andrew Okello, David Morley Hale
Trailer
Reviews
67
Despite the filmmakers investing so much time in unnecessary biopic exposition, the whole is an exciting and informative history lesson.
60
This a watchably stylised period film, with interesting visual setpieces and faces looming up at us out of intricately contrived backgrounds.
60
Apart from those nutty camera angles and lenses, which throw you out of the action, The Current War is absorbing.... It never quite snaps into focus, though.
50
The only aspect of the film that even makes it watchable ends up being Shannon’s portrayal of Westinghouse.
50
Gomez-Rejon’s The Current War is unfortunately neutralized by Mitnick’s artless script.
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