Overview

• Mountainhead centers on four billionaire friends whose AI innovation unleashes worldwide chaos during a luxury poker retreat.
• Reviewers argue the characters lack the depth and humanity that made Armstrong’s previous work, Succession, so compelling.
• The dialogue is packed with impenetrable tech-industry jargon, prompting some viewers to rely on subtitles just to follow conversations.
• The movie’s six-month journey from pitch to release is cited as a factor in its uneven tone, pacing and narrative gaps.
• Many critics contend that the satire falls flat in today’s rapidly shifting political and technological environment.