The Hummingbird Project

Name: The Hummingbird Project
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: March 15, 2019
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Ayisha Issa, Frank Schorpion, Jesse Eisenberg, Johan Heldenbergh

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Orchard, The | Release Date: March 15, 2019 | R

Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Ayisha Issa, Frank Schorpion, Jesse Eisenberg, Johan Heldenbergh, Kwasi Songui, Mark Slacke, Michael Mando, Salma Hayek, Sarah Goldberg

Summary: 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 flawedCousins 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 former 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.… Expand

Director: Kim Nguyen

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 111 min

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Alex Saveliev

Mar 12, 2019

This hummingbird soars. It has that based-on-a-true-story feel, with all the urgency and verisimilitude of a real-life tale. A sad and visceral indictment of our society under the guise of a thriller, Kim Nguyen’s rousing cinematic elegy will sneak up on you, like its titular moth. Read full review

Soren Andersen

Mar 19, 2019

Along the way, Hummingbird offers cogent commentary on the way unbridled avarice drives the search for even the smallest advantage in the cutthroat world of high finance. Read full review

Simon Houpt

Mar 21, 2019

And so you will get no Scorsesian tracking shots of firecracker trading floors, no giddy frat boy Champagne-shaking antics; this is a slow-boil thriller coursing with melancholy. Read full review

Empire Ian Freer

Jun 14, 2019

Although sometimes it gets bogged down in the details of drilling, The Hummingbird Project extracts enough entertainment value from an unpromising premise, greatly helped by Jesse Eisenberg finding the humanity in his hustler. Read full review

Kim Hughes

Mar 20, 2019

The Hummingbird Project is a fun enough ride though one with significant logic bumps that may prove as intractable as the terrain its characters hope to traverse. Read full review

Sara Stewart

Mar 14, 2019

Salma Hayek, as their vengeful ex-boss Eva Torres, is fun to watch as she plots to outwit them time and again, but ultimately, there’s no one here to really care about. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Mar 21, 2019

The way that conflict plays out is also surprisingly plodding. Read full review

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LamontRaymond

Mar 15, 2019

It's absolutely not a perfect film, but there's enough in it to make me pleasantly surprised. Jesse Eisenberg is great - probably his best film since The Social Network. And Eric Northman is excellent as his cousin and business partner. The glue that holds the film together is MichaelIt's absolutely not a perfect film, but there's enough in it to make me pleasantly surprised. Jesse Eisenberg is great - probably his best film since The Social Network. And Eric Northman is excellent as his cousin and business partner. The glue that holds the film together is Michael Mando, who plays Nacho in Better Call Saul. He fills largely the same role in this picture as he does in BCS - he executes, but he also has the moderating-force-level conscious that literally saves lives. The mechanics of the "race" are the weak points, as are the venture capitalists funding the project. But there's much more good than bad here.… Expand

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TVJerry

Mar 31, 2019

Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård endeavor to build a fiber-optic line between Kansas and New Jersey to boost stock market trading speed. Eisenberg continues with his typical fast-talking neurotic, but manages to elicit moments of genuine emotion. Skarsgård effectively works his bestJesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård endeavor to build a fiber-optic line between Kansas and New Jersey to boost stock market trading speed. Eisenberg continues with his typical fast-talking neurotic, but manages to elicit moments of genuine emotion. Skarsgård effectively works his best nerd with specs and a shaved head. The saga twists with multiple setbacks, leading to frustrations and complications, logistical and personal. It's an interesting story, but the subject isn't especially compelling and the narrative never grabs attention.… Expand

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Ralfbergs

Oct 21, 2020

It was ok. Seemed interesting and quite watchable, especially if you like Jesse Eisenberg's style of acting. Nothing too impressive though for it to be that memorable, so overall quite average.

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JLuis_001

Jul 1, 2019

It's a well done drama and the performances are good but it's incapable of generating some kind of emotion.
I think that's the key reason why it went so unnoticed.

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Mauro_Lanari

Aug 11, 2020

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Some expert specialists in the field complained about the technological nonsense, others about the story that seems to be written by a different screenwriter for each protagonist. It left me with a sense of incompleteness and I didn't understand where it wanted to go, with Don(Mauro Lanari)
Some expert specialists in the field complained about the technological nonsense, others about the story that seems to be written by a different screenwriter for each protagonist. It left me with a sense of incompleteness and I didn't understand where it wanted to go, with Don Quixote and David versus Goliath thrown there almost at random.… Expand

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