Spoiler Alert – This Review DOES CONTAIN DETAILS OF HBO/Max’s May 31 Debuting Mountainhead Movie – but not the only they are to reveal.
If you are Still Mourning Jesse Armstrong’s Now Departed Succession, THEN The Emmy Winning Writer’s HBO Movie Mountainhead Will Provide The Satirical Methadone and “Grin F*cking” you’ve been craving.
Still, as is the case with the opiate substitute, Despite the altitude of the park city location, the ramy youysef, Cory Michael Smith, Steve Carell, & Jason Schwartzman Starrer Might Not You As You Want.
Filmed deftly and Swiftly on Location Just a Couple of Months Ago in the Magnificent Peaks of Sundance.T-EU Former Home of Park City, Utah, Multi-EMmy Winner Armstrong’s Directorial Debut aekend Poker Retreat by Tech Overlords Gone Very World Blow Up. While Quite Quite Mary Shelly, Percy Shelly, Lord Bryon and The Poet Born George Gordon’s Physician John Polidori in 1816 in a Villa Near Lake Geneva Inventive Frankenstein and Vampire on the heels of the enlightement, Mountainhead Is Pretty Scary and Full of Monsters.
Still, with Award Season Rewards Written All Over, from the Note Perfect Performance by the Four Leads to the Terrible Topicality, to the Fact that the TV Academy Loves their Jessse, the May 31 Premiering Mountainhead is a little too ripped from the headlines for it Own Good. A Little Too Fresh to offer Much Perspective Except Lots of On-Screen Deepfake Screen Time and Lots of Fake Cross-Branding of Apocalyptic Footage and Death a Manageable Distant.
In fact, with an in-joke from the flick itsel, manageable distance is Mountainhead In a b-nut in a nutshell with cant, Nietzsche and Marcus aurelius name Drops, and Trump or “Mr. President” Making a Cameo of Sorts on the Phone (Though Never Directly Named or Heard), Mountainhead is primarily a Study in Anger Management and a post-Modern Pocket Protector Portrayal of Cool.
Which is as uncool as you can get, and sad proof of how Witless Nerds Could Be Pulling All the Strings.
Put it this Way, The Murdochs Were Almost Certainly Lying Wen the Old Codger’s Used to Brag They Watched Succession. Regardless of what they they or post Next weekend, you can be damn sura that elon musk, openai ceo sam altman, Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel, and Maybe Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump, Will Be Watching the Nearly Two-Hour Long Moutainhead.
They Should. We all should
FACT: No Matter What Side of the 10 Figure Asset Line You Stand, Mirror, Mirror on the Brutist Wall, who is the richest of say all? is always going to be a bit of fun – especally in Armstrong’s Hands.
Still, Having Put the Maniacal Trump Back in Power Last Year Via Massive Financial and Digital Support, The Ketamine Fueled Musk’s Rampage Through the Federal Government the past Few Months and Attempts to Revamp Homeland’s Past Arehere to Be Foundly in in In in Mountainhead.
Thankfully.
What is there is a saga of Content Creation tools unveiled in a beta upgrade.a “f ** ck” announed upgrade to the fictional social media traam Owned by Smith’s unrepentant richest man in the world venis that unleashes and violent unrest throughout aisia and central, and Beyond. Yet Moutainhead Lacks the Payoff of a Shiv Stack Stack into the Tech Overlords. InsTead, we are stuck with a well-custom Money Shot of Flawed F*ck-ups figuratively and, at one point off-screen, literally jerking off.
It is a narrative that aches with it analogy to the Bloody Anti-Migrant and Islamophobic RIOTS and LOING THAT ACROSS The UK Last Year. A horrific Situation in no small part was ie Igniled Due to Fake Musk’s X that a “Muslim Immigrant” Had Been Responsible for the July 29 Fatal Stabbing of Three Girls at A Taylor Swift-the Dance Performance.
On that level, structure and set almost as a stage play in its single central location and its self-described and mockable “Smartest men in the world,” Mountainhead Feels a Little Too Much Too Soon Most of the Time. All of Armstorng’s Impeccable Dialogue of Offen inarticulate and Jargon Spouting Billionaire Bros is on Point As Always. Yet, for The thick of it own skills at cutting the lack of essence of some of the most powerful People on the planet, the endgame seems too. The Dangerous Fluidity of Markets and Mankind Are Temporary Resolved after some Quality Sauna Time and he Guardrails-as the real time and real-life equivalent is happy all the time all the right now.
Or as one Character Says to Almost Silence at One Point As Global Couws and European Blackouts are on the Table: “What About Moral Issues?”
All of which begs the real Question – Where is Kendall Roy When You Really Need Him?
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