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The Current War
A drama movie that highlights on the life of Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, the emperors of electricity who compete each other for years in an attempt to create a sustainable electrical system for the people at first and for their historical reputation.
1975, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
7 August 1974, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
1972, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
16 August 1976, Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia
December 29, 2017
The Current War may not break new ground, but it finds exciting ways to make the old seem new.
September 15, 2017
The Current War is boring, bad history.
September 11, 2017
The prevailing mood of The Current War is indifference; there's no point listing the crimes against the past committed by Michael Mitnick's dramatically inept script ...
September 13, 2017
It's very expensive and very busy, and it's utterly forgettable.
September 10, 2017
For all its aggressive energy, The Current War is an uninvolving bore, making it unlikely to measure up as the kind of Oscar-baity prestige entry the Weinstein Company obviously had in mind.
September 11, 2017
Apart from those nutty camera angles and lenses, which throw you out of the action, The Current War is absorbing ...
April 30, 2018
With a better screenplay with more emotionally appealing characters, The Current War could've been a hit.
September 10, 2017
What it can't do ... is generate even the slightest bit of interest in what happens to any of its characters.
September 19, 2017
Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon rides to the rescue with style to spare. Eye-catching cinematography (Chung-hoon Chung), production design (Jan Roelfs) and art direction (Stephen Bream) make the footage a joy to watch.
September 12, 2017
Despite investing so much time in unnecessary biopic exposition, the whole is an exciting and informative history lesson. We learn electricity was always bigger than two men.
September 12, 2017
A torpidly slow epic with a script that moves at the speed of light, the film is pockmarked with incidents that never cohere into a clear narrative.
September 14, 2017
Gomez-Rejon's The Current War is unfortunately neutralized by Mitnick's artless script.
