\n<\/p>\n
The 2025 drama Mountainhead<\/em><\/strong>, left me cold. (Pun Intended.) I don\u2019t get this one and I\u2019ve watched it twice. Rambling technospeak and allusions of grandeur left me wondering what the heck I just watched. I am a huge Steve Carell<\/a> fan. He sold himself to me as an actor outside of The Office<\/strong><\/em>. <\/p>\n Writer\/director Jesse Armstrong<\/a> having a sly, or not so sly, dig at the world\u2019s 1% is reflected here. I think. The small contingent of four techno rich elitists working deals amid world disaster is spot on. The new regime of the USA is indeed doing their own version of non-technocrats fiddling while Rome burns. <\/p>\n *It can be argued rather successfully that the new leader of the once free world has surpassed Nero here. Bashing about the white house like a drunken bull in a china shop, creating havoc and mayhem with equal aplomb. He is not fiddling, but playing a different type of tune, one using an entire orchestra.*<\/p>\n Armstrong has taken the small group of vapid, self obsessed business men and given them free reign. Mountainhead<\/strong><\/em> may not be about the 1% or even about our new government. If it is not, however, it should be.<\/p>\n Four equally self promoting techo billionaires reunite. Their \u201cget together\u201d takes place at a mountaintop mansion that Goldfinger would be envious of. The men are separated from the real world except for the internet and a mixture of fake and real news. These self made, tech obsessed dictators soon turn on one of their own. <\/p>\n Steve Ca<\/a>rell<\/a> is Randall.<\/p>\n Jason Schwartzman<\/a> is Souper.<\/p>\n1%<\/h4>\n
The story<\/h4>\n
The main cast<\/h4>\n