This movie looks like it was made with 50 bucks. Ethan hawk was clumsy and dull. His attempts to look instense and intelligent flopped terribly. It pains me that such an amazing story, about such an incredible individual, was treated so shoddily.

It's a little too thinly drawn for my taste but there's no denying Almereyda's ambition and the unconventional approach is certainly a refreshing choice for a biopic.

That's one strange biographic documentary

While the acting was good, the script and editing resulted in a film that's hard to get into, and then takes a surreal turn. It starts out feeling like one of those documentary videos playing on a screen at a museum, but then attempted to go into drama, and then goes full avant-garde. Without spoiling anything, at one point the character of Edison pulls out his iPhone while standing at a bar. I think the director was trying to say something, but he hadn't earned this audience's forbearance.

Look...you ready didn't need to awaken me in the middle of this movie to tell me that I was missing the movie. I'd already seen enough...🥱

Tesla is both an audacious film and a failed one. It's bold and interesting but never feels compelling or complete. Ethan Hawke is great though as the visionary inventor Nikola Tesla. Set during the 19th century the film shows the initial battle between Thomas Edison and Tesla in the so called 'current war'. It plots the ups and downs of Tesla's career, a man of great intelligence and principle. It does fall into the trap though of a lot of biopics of trying to cover too much ground, which makes the film a bit stretched and weak. The unique part of the film is the narration by Anne Morgan. She oftens speaks straight to camera and even has a laptop to discuss the times and the careeer of Tesla. It's a different approach and works to a certain extent. Much like the film itself.

An interesting story which I don't tire of hearing told. This depiction was a bit stilted. There was a bit too much narrated exposition which became a bit distracting in it's volume / pervasiveness. Entertaining none-the-less.

I found it to be a little boring and not sure which direction the movie was headed!

Tesla was evidently a brilliant man, but this biopic isn't. The history of his contribution is overshadowed by trying to tell the pieces of his story in ways that don't work well together.

Total and utter garbage. Some moron decided to take what could have been an interesting story and turn it into an idiotic art piece that is filled with just terrible direction and production decisions. I didn't even think "The Current War" was all that great, but at least it was watchable. Whoever greenlit this idea is an idiot, and anybody who knew what this would be and didn't immediately quit the project deserves to have their judgement questioned in the future.

I really cant believe that N. Tesla was so wooden and never changed his expression. Continual frown,bland, flat dialogue by Hawke. Couldnt wait for it to end.

I liked its bold approach to the typically stuffy biopic genre, but it misses as often as it hits and a strong first half loses its spark in the second. Maybe that's the point, Tesla promised more than he could deliver, but that doesn't make for a satisfying narrative for a film.

Interesting biopic. Shame that it didn't focus on all of his inventions 6/10

I really wanted to like this movie, because I think Tesla was a great man. But this was terrible. It was completely disjointed, so much that it was hard to follow. There was no character development, no relationship between the characters, no narrative thread. Ethan Hawks did no acting: he maintained the same scowl throughout the whole movie. The way it was filmed was weird and unpleasant. Completely wasted 2 hours.

Interesting to watch, but didn't work for me overall.

Very surreal, not a documentary or a joker like follow someone into madness. Very little on his inventions. There are much better Tesla documentaries available.

Disjointed, confusing and weak. Inaccurately portrays one of the greatest inventors and minds the world has ever see. For some reason J.P Morgan's daughter is main character and switches between lead role and looking at camera talking to audience using modern day technology. When Tesla sings Tear For Fears - Everyone Wants To Rule The World I had to make an account here and rate it. It was so bad I believe it was funded by The Edison Estate

A brilliant movie. Ethan Hawke gives an electrifying performance. He delivers a stunning performance that absolutely satisfies, subtle and deeply felt in its sincerity. Tesla presents a piece of history that people will know for generations to come. A complex film that portrays Tesla in an authentic version of a gifted idealist and genius, against a predatory capitalist system that feeds on the vulnerable. The film exceeds expectations in each moment as we see Tesla interact with the giants of his day, Edison and JP Morgan. A unique blend of storytelling and historical facts that keeps the audience not only informed but pleasantly entertained. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

It's a little too thinly drawn for my taste but there's no denying Almereyda's ambition and the unconventional approach is certainly a refreshing choice for a biopic.

Whoever wrote and directed this film likes the smell of their own artsty farts. You disgraced a great man by only showing the dynamic between him and his investors, not the genius that could have illuminated the audience and supplied endless animations and effects that would dazzle the imagination, for God's sake, Edison electrocuted an elephant and Tesla drove a car without gasoline, let's not add that no we'd rather throw in Google references, bad narrations and a cheesy 80's song sung by Tesla near the end when they ran out of time. Don't make another movie please.