The US critics of the film “Mountainhead” compare the film HBO with Steve Carell to “Succession” and it is logical since it is the same screenwriter. But it stops there.
A few days before its launch this Sunday, June 1 on Max, the first American criticisms of the Dramatic Comedy Moutainhead began to be revealed. Led among others by Steve Carell (appointed to the Emmys for The Office and The Morning Show) in the role of Randall, the story follows history is centered on “A group of billionaire friends who find themselves against the backdrop of an international crisis“.
Alongside Carell, we find Jason Schwartzman (aboard the Darjeeling Limited), Cory Michael Smith (Gotham) and Ramy Youssef (Ramy).
The creator of succession to maneuver
The TV movie is the work of the famous creator of series Jesse Armstrong, who is at the origin of the succession family series, considered as cult among his followers. Jesse Armstrong's first feature film is currently receiving mixed opinions from US critics.
Some praise them “Expert performance“Main actors, but it is obviously not sufficient. Since the two projects deal with ultra-rich, most criticisms have inevitably compared Mountainhead to the work of Armstrong on succession. And this time, seduction would not have operated.
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What do the criticisms about Mountainhead, the film HBO with Steve Carell say?
According to Bob Strauss de Thewrap“Mountainhead looks more like a burlesque film on the oligarchs, but although the central roles of the film are 2D representations of Magnats of real life (and their attitudes) that we all learn to fear, that does not mean that they are not richly written“.
Frank Scheck, of Hollywood Reporterand Shaina Weatherhead, from Collideralso pointed out that the main distribution was the positive point of the film. “”It is certainly quite entertaining while you look at it, thanks to the expert performance of its four main actors“, Writes Scheck.”If you only come for the comic style of four powerful actors, Mountainhead will certainly seduce you if you don't take it too seriously“Said Weatherhead on his side.
Kevin Maher from Time (UK) expressed its disappointment as to “lack of emotional complexity“History, attributing to the film one of his lowest notes with a 2 out of 5.”Constant toxicity is boring, the characters oscillate between total repulsion and stupid caricature, and there is not the slightest trace of Shakespearean grandeur or the emotional complexity that defined succession“, He says.
See you on June 1 on Max to make your own opinion.
