Read Billy's review of The Hummingbird Project.
Cousins from New York, Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) are players in the high-stakes game of High-Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a straight fiber-optic cable line between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions. But nothing is straightforward for this flawed pair. Anton is the brains, Vincent is the hustler, and together they push each other and everyone around them to the breaking point with their quixotic adventure. Constantly breathing down their necks is their old boss Eva Torres (Salma Hayek), a powerful, intoxicating and manipulative trader who will stop at nothing to come between them and beat them at their own game.
The Hummingbird Project is in select theaters on March 22nd, 2019.
The Hummingbird Project is about a couple of guys laying some cable to try and beat the stock market exchange by a couple milliseconds. They claimed in the movie that this would make them millions of dollars because they would be able to trade before anyone else.
When you first hear the names Jesse Eisenberg and Salma Hayek in a movie, you're probably thinking of a sexy smart comedy, that will be smart witted and bold, well, these words do not describe what The Hummingbird Project was, and it should be taken out of your mind. Sadly, while Hayek delivers a perfect 'bad guy' performance, they grossly under use her in the film.
While the movie starts off interesting and makes you interested, it quickly slows down and ends up not holding interest after the first twenty minutes. The film holds a lot of jargon that you won't understand unless you know the stock market, or understand how the cable industry works. They start a few different plots in the movie, while they do wrap everything up by the end, the are running so many that you will not care, or care to remember them, by the end of the movie.
I think if you're bored on a Thursday night with nothing to do, this is the perfect movie for you to watch, but if you can think of something better, I'd suggest for you to skip this one and watch something else.
Rating: 2 out of 5
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