![]() ![]() Hummingbird’s juggling of genres - thriller, heist movie, family drama, character study, social commentary - may attract adventurous viewers, although it could prove challenging to marketers trying to condense the film into a poster.Įisenberg plays Vincent, who convinces his computer-savvy cousin Anton (Skarsgård) that they should quit their jobs at a high-powered New York trading company, run by Eva Torres (Hayek), to go into business for themselves. Premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, the movie will benefit from the star power of Eisenberg and Skarsgård, not to mention a villainous turn from Salma Hayek. Hayek has a blast as Hummingbird’s antagonist, pumping as much life into Eva’s cartoon-y lines as she can ![]() And yet, writer-director Kim Nguyen’s faith in his weird, cynical vision proves sufficiently compelling, even when the characters’ peculiarities turn tiresome. Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård commit fully as cousins hell-bent on getting rich in the stock market by building a super-fast cross-country fibre-optic cable - a quest that proves more challenging for them and far wonkier for the audience than initially expected. ![]() 111minsĪ defiantly odd thriller involving esoteric subject matter, The Hummingbird Project tells a familiar story of ambition and greed with enough eccentricity that the movie’s strangeness becomes one of its chief attributes. ![]()
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