Hello my fellow film aficionados! I am Axat, and I write my reviews while watching the movie or show I’m reviewing, with a final stream-of-thought rant at the end while the credits start rolling - or, in the case of most franchise movies and series, after all the mid/post credit scenes are over.
Watch this review on my YouTube channel - https://youtube.com/shorts/hMWKpWZPpt0
In the case of Mountainhead, who better than Steve Carell to quote Star Wars by excluding his defeatist doctor from the tech-bros-hang get-together with the phrase “no droids in the cantina!”
The tech billionaire bros have massively contrasting personalities, which is a must-have for such bottle-plot movies. Bottle episodes in TV are when one set is used for the whole episode, which is the case here too. By the end of the movie, which doesn’t have much of a plot except petty jealousy and selfishness and the tyranny of evil men who control the technology which drives much of our digital world, I was mildly entertained. The script had a lot of Western philosophy thrown in, but most of it pretty much boiled down to “I want this, and I’ll justify my committing a crime to get it, no matter what the cost.” Eventually, though, nothing much changes for them.
They remain oblivious to the death raging in the world due to one of them, and carelessly cast it aside in favor of pursuing their personal agendas. So the moral of the story and my review of it is: watch Mountainhead, or don’t - it makes no difference to the ultra-rich, or the rest of society.
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