Tesla

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Tesla

PG-13

2020

1h 42m

Biography

History

Drama

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Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy.

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Critics Consensus

Appropriately bold and ambitious, Tesla takes a number of risks that don't always pay off -- but Ethan Hawke's performance makes those flaws easier to forgive.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

12/23/2022

3.5/4

Almereyda’s wildly creative Nikola Tesla biopic...defies conventions...

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Clarisse Loughrey

Independent (UK)

09/25/2020

3/5

The biopic is an impossible art. You either bore your audience or reduce your subject to a mere collection of ideas and symbols.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

09/20/2020

It won't spark for everyone but I found it intriguing and unexpected.

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Joshua Arispe

Loud and Clear Reviews

10/28/2024

2.5/5

Tesla contains notable storytelling and performances in its imaginative liberties, but this history lesson still fails at electrifying its audience.

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Dave Giannini

InSession Film

02/20/2024

C+

So, is Tesla a bad movie? No, you can certainly do worse. Plus, accomplished actors Hawke and MacLachlan carry it across the mediocre finish line. Is it a good movie, though? Definitely not.

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Bethan Ackerley

New Scientist

07/19/2023

The film rarely finds the will to be interested in the man Tesla actually was. Coupled with its incoherent – if striking – aesthetic, this means Tesla too often feels like an empty frame, or a motor without the power to keep it running.

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alexandra a

09/12/2020

sometimes a little slow. I wish they had shown the end of their life

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Jami Coker

09/07/2020

Left out many important details of his life and his accomplishments. His singing the song at the end was so irrelevant and his singing was terrible!

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Joseph

08/27/2020

Very well acted but a bit slow moving in portions.

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Lily Baeza

08/23/2020

Tesla is the greatest and Edison is an ignorant douche. Amazing movie, love how they included his illness, wish they would of portrayed it more though.

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June

08/23/2020

A really weird interpretation of Tesla's life. Very slow and disjointed. Wouldn't really recommend

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Josiah

08/23/2020

Wow! So much potential yet SUCH a let down. It's like they wanted it to be a documentary, a comedy, and throw in some romance and did poorly in all three areas. At least the theater was open

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Thomas Edison

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Jim Gaffigan

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Synopsis

Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy.

Director: Michael Almereyda
Producer: Christa Campbell, Lati Grobman, Per Melita, Isen Robbins, Uri Singer
Screenwriter: Michael Almereyda
Distributor: IFC Films
Production Co: Passage Pictures, Intrinsic Value Films, Jeff Rice Films, Campbell Grobman Films, RNG Entertainment
Rating: PG-13 (Some Thematic Material|Nude Images)
Genre: Biography, History, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 21, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 19, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA): $93.0K
Runtime: 1h 42m