The Current War (2018)

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Directed by

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Starring (View all)

Benedict Cumberbatch
Thomas Edison

Katherine Waterston
Marguerite Westinghouse

Nancy Crane
Gladys

Liza Ross
Beti

Tim Steed
Maurice Manesburg

Michael Shannon
George Westinghouse

Amy Marston
Annabelle Worthington

Tom Bell
Reverend Vincent

Written by

Michael Mitnick
screenplay

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An average movie

1 year ago at Apr 20 10:54

johanlefourbe

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though it was definitely dealing with a super interesting story, the movie itself was not really great, I’m afraid. First of all, I thought this movie would be about the conflict between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla and, in fact, I h... read more

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The dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world.

Release date: 1 February 2018

Tags: Drama (3), Biography (2), 2019 (2), 2017 (2), History (1), 2010s (1), 2018 (1), 真實改編 (1)

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johanlefourbe posted a review 1 year ago

An average movie

“To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though it was definitely dealing with a super interesting story, the movie itself was not really great, I’m afraid. First of all, I thought this movie would be about the conflict between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla and, in fact, I have to admit that I had never heard of George Westinghouse before. It’s weird because I saw ‘Tesla’ starring Ethan Hawke less than 2 years ago and I couldn’t remember that he did work for both men. Anyway, in spite of his legendary status, Tesla was never really successful after all but that’s not what this movie was about. However, even though you might expect the whole thing to be a du” read more