Movie reviews: The Kid Who Would Be King, The Hummingbird Project

In this drama thriller, cousins Vincent and Anton live in the world of high-stakes and high-frequency trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds.

Their dream is to build a straight fiber-optic cable line between Kansas and New Jersey and make millions out of it, but nothing is straightforward for this flawed pair.The usually hunky Skarsgard has uglified himself - a move that usually signals an actor means business - and he does not disappoint, being passionate yet peculiar as the brainy other half.

Unfortunately, The Hummingbird Project gets too esoteric for its own good, isolating layman audiences with the subject matter, as much of it is needlessly and overly tech-y. It is also a victim of muddled plotting, where the emotional stakes fail to match the urgency of its premise. -

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