Ethan Hawke

Eve Hewson

Jim Gaffigan

Kyle MacLachlan

Donnie Keshawarz

Josh Hamilton

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Lucy Walters

John Palladino

Michael Mastro

Hannah Gross

Peter Greene

Blake DeLong

Karl Geary

James Urbaniak

Eli Smith

Dan Bittner

David Kallaway

Nicholas Wuehrmann

Haley Elise Pehrson

Tony Hutaj

Corban Elwick-Schermitz

Emory Gleeson

Ian Lithgow

Emma Clare O'Connor

Gary Rissman

Steven Gurewitz

Rick Zahn

Lois Smith

Tallulah McRae Silovsky

Hermione Heckrich

Tom Farrell

Thomas Roma

Vincent De Paul

Christian Hicks

Rebecca Dayan

Jameal Ali

David Weinberg

Paul Saltzberg

Joshuah Melnick

Charles Baran

David Kubicka

Carl Bernzweig

George Aloi

Gary Ayash

Luna Jokic

Eli A. Smith

Charles Zambrano

Michael Almereyda

Uri Singer

Christa Campbell

Isen Robbins

Lati Grobman

Carl Sprague

Sofija Mešiček

Drew Jiritano

Jonathan Podwil

Sean Price Williams

Kathryn J. Schubert

Jeff Rice

Margie Geddes

Renee Frigo

Lee Broda

Jeffrey Greenstein

Per Melita

Avi Lerner

John Paesano

Rob Van Norden

Trevor Short

Jonathan Yunger

Doron Weber

Joshua A. Friedman

Joan G. Bostwick

Billy Hopkins

Ashley Ingram

Lonnie Ramati

Manny Siverio

Jennie Jeddry

Christina Carmody

George Matsuo

Kristian Schneider

Bayley Sweitzer

Kevin Yankou

Gideon Jensen

Stephen Rathier

Rebecca Bloom

Nicole Real

Cara Howe

James Wall

Matt Keyser

Ellen Athena Catsikeas

Angelica Sander

Jay Carrado

Rachel Federkova

Jerry Stein

Doug Durant

Elizabeth Stern

Michael D'Amato

Benjamin Logan

Daniel April

Perry Grebin

Jean-Marcel Gelmi

Emily Chalmers

Jamila Meloche

Olena Tokaryeva

Natalia Danilova

Nate Walker

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Kenny Urbina

Tara Zielenski

Nicolas Luna

Nick Daunys

Anthony Ingrasselino

Michael Pippini

Marsha Smith

Mike Dietz

Sarah Goncin

Guy L. Bermel

Geraldine Pope

Fiona Gorman

Tricia Peck

Michael J. Braun

Bruce J. Paquette

Matias Shimada

Max Reilly

Amy Teitter

J Guerra

Richard Hebrank

Trish Gray

TJ Moreso

John Marrett

Jeamen Julian

Stephen Schioppo

Zach Alliger

Kristy Strate

April Townes

Chris Zuch

Michael David

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According to this movie, Thomas Edison (MacLachlan) and Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) were like Mozart and Salieri if Mozart and Salieri had been anything like they are portrayed in Amadeus – but then Tesla has as tenuous a hold on reality as Amadeus does, sans all the things that make Milos Forman's film otherwise great.

This movie derives a sick pleasure from comparing the two inventors, emphasizing Edison's failures over Tesla's successes – whatever those may have been; I confess that, after seeing the film, I haven't the slightest idea of Tesla's achievements, apart from alternating current (which he did not invent) and, apparently, communicating with Mars. Perhaps it's due to the latter that Hawke plays Tesla as some kind of alien; a combination of Keanu in The Day the Earth Stood Still and Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth.

Tesla depicts two meetings between the inventors only to admit that neither actually happened. In one of those imaginary encounters, Edison apologizes to Tesla and tells him that he was wrong about him. What is the point of this? If it is supposed to be a retroactive 'f-you' to Edison, methinks he is long past the point of caring.

Apart from the historically revisionist chip on its shoulder, Tesla is a stylistic disaster. The film is narrated by Anne Morgan (Eve Hewson), American financier and banker J.P. Morgan's (Donnie Keshawarz) daughter. In addition to her role in the events of the film, Anne appears in cutaways, sitting at a table with a Mac computer (?), reporting the respective number of results in a Google search for Tesla and Edison, and telling us to Google the American businessman and engineer George Westinghouse.

If this weren't strange enough, in the second half of the movie director/screenwriter Michael Almereyda has Hawke stand against a background that is either a matte painting (Niagara Falls, a field in Colorado, a restaurant) or a projection (a pair of horses frolicking in a meadow, to whom Hawke offers an apple); this might work in a stage play, or if the entire film consistently followed the same aesthetic, but here it's just another incomprehensible artistic choice.

All of the above, however, is nothing compared to what will go down in history as arguably the lowest point in cinema in the year 2020; Ethan Hawke as Nikola Tesla doing a karaoke version of Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World." This is the exact moment, with about ten minutes to go, when I said "F this movie" and never looked back.

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