Two brothers are working on a pipeline that could revolutionise the financial industry – in the game of fast placed share trading, triumph is measured in fractions of a millisecond, and the shortest of delays can mean billions of dollars. But they’ve got troubles – their former employer is determined to see them fail, their financiers are on their back, there are rival technologies out there that could supersede them, medical problems, equipment problems and government problems pursues them on their road to success.
This should be the slightly wonkish exercise in “how this industry works” that really interests me, but somehow this left me kind of cold. Jesse Eisenberg has never been the most likeable of protagonists, but here there’s not really anything playing against his nerdish intensity – Alexander Skaarsgard shows he’s able to be reasonably personable even when he removes his obvious handsomeness and pops on a balding hairdo, and there’s not quite enough for Salma Hayek to do that can make her more than an intermittent threat. It sorta feels a tad flat and, while there are a lot of small incidents along the way posing mini-threats, it never feels particularly unified or driven towards a single point. Which means ultimately it’s a bit dull.
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