And the award for daftest title of the year goes to: fast-and-loose, science-historical, no-villains, revisionist, bio-pic flim-flammery which is supposedly the battle between Eddison and Westinghouse, but is actually about the battle between Michael Shannon and his period moustache.
Benedict Cumberbatch lends his earnest baritone to yet another real-life ‘sciencist’, rogue businessman and patent-thief Thomas Eddison, in the battle for dominance of AC vs DC current in domestic energy supply. Not exactly Highway to Hell.
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