Mountainhead

I am not sure what they were going for. It was marketed as somewhat of a thriller, but the dialogue was trying to be comedic and quite frankly the execution was poor. The whole plot wasn't very feasible and it's another one of those straight to TV movies. The premise that one of them released software that could create deep, fake AI stories that couldn't be detected seem to be ignored by everybody in the world, and it was causing disruption everywhere when everybody in the world knew the stories were only on that particular platform, which had already announced that you should be skeptical. Aside from that a whole plot involving the four billionaires was not very believable.

This movie is basically four rich guys talking in a fancy mountain house - that's it. And weirdly... I really liked it. At first I thought it was gonna be boring, but after 20 minutes I was fully in.

The characters are so over-the-top but also weirdly real. You really feel how disconnected they are from normal people. The dialogues are smart but not too heavy, and some moments are actually really funny in a dark way.

Souper was my favorite - trying so hard to be a billionaire with a meditation app, but clearly lost inside. The tension between the characters is always there, like something bad could happen anytime, but it never turns into a cliché.

There's no action, no music really, not much going on visually, but it still keeps you watching. It's just... different. And in a good way.

If you liked Succession or enjoy dark comedy with smart dialogue, give this one a shot. I didn't expect to like it this much.

Bonus points for making me laugh and feel a little uncomfortable at the same time.

It's a great cast but it suffers the greatest sin of all. It's boring. It's four insufferable billionaire sociopaths hanging out on a weekend getaway, being awful people. It's satire, they nail the techno bro ego and jargon and total lack of empathy. You just don't care about any of them or what happens to them or what they have to say. It feels like a single sideplot from a season of Succession drawn out into a full movie...and it doesn't work. What would make it exciting on a tv series is the main plot, other characters, drama, intrigue, suspense, music, cliffhangers etc...things completely absent from this foray. I legit started scrolling through my phone at the midpoint because I got the gist and didn't care anymore by then.

"Mountainhead" is the kind of film that clearly could have been something special. The premise carries the weight of mystery and psychological depth, and you can sense that somewhere in there, buried beneath the missteps, is a brilliant story struggling to surface. Unfortunately, what we get instead is a film riddled with mediocre dialogue, undercooked ideas, and character choices that slide from naive into outright dumb.

The central theme had potential to explore something meaningful - maybe a descent into obsession or isolation - but it's hard to stay invested when the script constantly undercuts its own gravity. The male characters are frustratingly unrealistic: wealthy yet clueless to a degree that breaks immersion. Their actions, supposedly driven by ambition or fear, feel more like the product of lazy writing than believable motivation.

The cinematography and atmosphere hint at what the film could have been under stronger direction - moments of eerie tension and visual style do appear. But they're fleeting, drowned out by the clunky pacing and lack of coherence. It's a shame, really, because the bones of a great story are here. They're just never given a chance to shine.

"Mountainhead" isn't unwatchable, but it's a textbook case of wasted potential.

I don't understand the negative reviews - thought it was very funny, but also super relevant to the times we're living in where these billionaires really do have all the power. And where AI and social media can be extremely destructive to society and democracy. The cast was fantastic, the characters were super weird, but it's exactly how I imagine the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world to be. At times (mostly in the beginning) it was hard to follow, but that also made it kind of interesting. Like they had their own language that we mere mortals don't speak or understand. Very unique movie, one you should definitely watch.