The Current War review: the Edison vs Westinghouse rivalry lights up this movie

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The film was supposed to debut two years ago through distributor The Weinstein Company, only to be mired in modern day controversy and put
on hiatus due to the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations.Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon was able to reshoot and recut the movie in that
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You do get a sense of a decade of their lives, but not a full, start-to-finish biography of the already-established inventors in the 107
ruthlessness of his commitment to seeing Direct Current succeed
Westinghouse's Alternating Current on animals in an attempt to smear his rival in the press.(Image credit: Thunder Road
Pictures)Westinghouse, already a titan of the Industrial Age, thanks to his invention of the railway air brake, continues to back
rivalry
Tesla ends up being a minor, but important player in this particular film.The complicated lives and work habits of these two innovators
You admire them for their foresight to change the course of history and connect the world with their revolutionary ideas
Then you begin to discover they, at times, betray their own principles and make this mostly about winning a game.One of the more faithful
the lives of both men feel as though they need an origin story
At the same time, it may have drawn things out to an even slower pace.(Image credit: Thunder Road Pictures)Biopics like this movie live and
die by their source material
Too often, Hollywood studios like to gin up a true story in an effort to make the theater experience more entertaining
Argo (yes, that film with Ben Affleck) is the perfect example of a movie based on events that really happened, but you to come to find that
that here instead of entertainment mascading as history.6kYTpzf3s6ro5fuyBCiA4.jpg?#