Mountainhead - Reviews

Armstrong’s version of tech-bro bantering is a lot more literate and zingy than actual tech-bro bantering would be...

With Mountainhead, Armstrong is sticking to a kind of satire he knows well.

Forget Donald Trump, forget Stephen Miller, forget Kristi Noem: This is the worst, most powerful villain in our midst. Sure, Venis is fictional, but his real-world equivalents are everywhere.

...promises and delivers a takedown of those tech bros who now rule our society, although there are few genuinely schadenfreude-derived smiles to be had in the exercise.

None of the characters are likable, but, much like Succession, this doesn't diminish the movie's entertainment, even if you are hoping for a giant avalanche to put an end to things.

Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman and Ramy Youssef exemplify the reprehensible super-rich in this pitch-black comedy that asks: how far can you extend gallows humour?

...isn't just Succession for tech bros – it's something far darker.

Although the film is heavy on talk and light on action, it’s perversely pleasurable to spend time with these hollow scumbags who perceive real people’s lives as “fungible human assets”.

More than any comedy or even film I’ve seen recently, this is movie driven by the line-by-line need for fierce, nasty, funny punched-up stuff in the dialogue, and narrative arcs and character development aren’t the point.

Med techmiljardärer, AI-kaos och sylvass dialog speglar Jesse Armstrongs regidebut “Succession” i både stil och substans, men lyckas inte nå samma djup.

”Succession”-skaparen Jesse Armstrongs nya film är flåsig, grabbig och rent plågsam. Likväl fungerar den utmärkt.

...dialogen är sylvass även här, ensemblen är perfekt, och som en varning för en framtid som är så nära att vi kanske redan lever i den, är den här moderna satiren både skrämmande, rolig och effektiv.

...som kommentar betraktad överträffas den varje dag av valfri sammanfattning av Trumps senaste dygn. Slaget om satiren är tyvärr sedan länge förlorat.