Style: Satirical Darkish Comedy
Director: Jesse Armstrong
Starring: Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, Ramy Youssef
Operating Time: 109 minutes
Synopsis: 4 rich tech business mates reunite at a lavish mountain-top villa in Utah. Ven (Cory Michael Smith) has simply unleashed an AI app enabling deepfakes which might be triggering worldwide unrest. Jeff (Ramy Youssef) disapproves of Ven’s profiteering perspective and is unwilling to promote him his counter-deepfake utility. Souper (Jason Schwartzman) owns the villa however is determined to make his first billion, whereas Randall (Steve Carell) is the group’s inspiration and guru. Over a few days, their grand desires of worldwide domination reveal schisms that spill into plans for violence.
What Works Nicely: The premise of tech bros goofing round on the prime of a mountain whereas the world burns beneath them is a promising demonstration of warped considering, narcissism, and sharp intellects concentrating on all of the fallacious aims.
What Does Not Work As Nicely: Author and director Jesse Armstrong badly flubs the execution, surrendering to theatrical trappings and one way or the other losing many of the operating time on an unworthy doofus homicide plot. Different wayward distractions embody a catastrophic dependancy to profanities, and long-winded self-obsessed conversations about governing Argentina and reaching transhumanism. It is all presupposed to be satirical and satirically dumb in a wise approach, but it surely’s simply plain tiresome.
Key Quote:
Ven (watching movies of worldwide violence erupting): Not actual. Heads do not explode like that.
Souper: Heads do not explode like that?
Ven: No.
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