![]() ![]() As the de facto brawn of the duo, Vincent has his meeker, tech–genius cousin, Anton, on a leash. After a messy resignation from their positions at a firm in New York, Vincent and Anton embark on a precarious journey across the country. If successful, the scheme will bring Vincent, Anton, and their antsy investors millions. Their goal is to run a straight fiber–optic cable right through the Appalachian mountains from Kansas to the New York Stock Exchange, bringing the information transport time down by a single, precious millisecond. However, while some risks do pay off in the end, and I mean the very end, The Hummingbird Project has a difficult time getting off the ground as the true thriller it seems to want to be.Īt the center of what eventually becomes an all–out shit storm involving sudden illness, the FBI and a pissed–off Amish community, among other obstacles, cousins Vincent ( Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton ( Alexander Skarsgård) Zaleski are put in high gear to accomplish an incredible technological feat set to change the high–frequency trading game. Not to say that the jargon–laden drama with buddy–movie tendencies is an all–out failure, for it hits a handful of high notes and occasionally edges on effective dark humor. How exactly do you turn a convoluted, high–frequency trading fiber–optic cable development scheme into a compelling, fast–paced thriller? If The Hummingbird Project is any indication, chances are you can’t.
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