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Summary: A Bland Overview
Review: This overview of Tesla's life touches all the bases. The directing is lifeless. It often feels more like a stage play than a film, since much of the information is revealed through conversation rather than showing it happen. One flashback scene is in Serbian but if you've read a bio you know what happens. Tesla's dialogue is pretty good, a lot of the other dialogue is corny. Tesla is portrayed as depressed all the time--I think he had some humor in real life. The inaccurate conclusion of the film, that Tesla actually knew how to produce free energy but that J. P. Morgan wouldn't back him finacially in order to keep free energy from the world--is a little silly. The bulk of the film is about the contest between AC and DC, and I think they handled that pretty well considering the complexity of the topic. People who like special effects will be disappointed by the sparse pre-computer graphics optical effects.
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Summary: This movie should be viewed by young and old...
Review: "The Secret of Nikola Tesla" is a film about a man that was so far beyond his time in the field of electronics that people today still haven't understood what impact his discoveries have on their lives today. Things in this world would be radically different if Tesla was allowed to complete his work. In this video, you will get a feel for the passion and incredible intellect that Tesla possessed. Don't be surprised if you get a little "peeved" after finding out that many of our world's problems have already been answered, but because of the "Almighty Dollar" our welbeing has been neglected. Tesla forsaw all of it. This film is a must for everyone. We can learn from history, and this film details important little known facts. Though it is not perfect in it's portrayal, "The Secret of Nikola Tesla" stands as a landmark film...it's well worth your time to view it.
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Summary: Don't buy this DVD
Review: It's beyond doubt that Nikola Tesla was a genius. Equally it's beyond doubt that this entertaining movie is without question the most appalling transfer onto the DVD medium ever! It's not just the diabolical colour saturation or the abhorrent audio that should give this movie transfer 0 out of 1000 but on one scene the movie turns to B&W, pauses, rewinds (exactly like a VHS movie) before continuing again!!I wish it were possible to give this DVD a negative rating as its transfer is beyond a joke. Charging $USD26.96 makes this a horrendous criminal nightmare!
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Summary: Absorbing film which captures much of Tesla's complexity
Review: I give this film five stars because it stays very focused on Tesla--the man, his ideas, and his interactions with important contemporaries of the time. The film has a brooding feel to it which captures the blend of genius, vision, eccentricity and mental instability that was Tesla. There are lots of night scenes which dramatically set off the electric "light-up" effects. I also liked the camera's frequent emphasis on Tesla's rapport with Nature--water, wind, lightning, the earth. The performances of the major characters (Tesla, Edison, Westinghouse, and Morgan) are all very enjoyable.
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Summary: This movie should be viewed by young and old...
Review: "The Secret of Nikola Tesla" is a film about a man that was so far beyond his time in the field of electronics that people today still haven't understood what impact his discoveries have on their lives today. Things in this world would be radically different if Tesla was allowed to complete his work. In this video, you will get a feel for the passion and incredible intellect that Tesla possessed. Don't be surprised if you get a little "peeved" after finding out that many of our world's problems have already been answered, but because of the "Almighty Dollar" our welbeing has been neglected. Tesla forsaw all of it. This film is a must for everyone. We can learn from history, and this film details important little known facts. Though it is not perfect in it's portrayal, "The Secret of Nikola Tesla" stands as a landmark film...it's well worth your time to view it.
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Summary: A video can't replace Tesla but...
Review: Tesla's life and history was greate and strange. Personally I felt that this video could be better. I don't understand Tesla native's lenguage and used english weren't very clear for a video intented for sale worldwide. Any way, every thing about Tesla is interesting.
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Summary: A Butchered Edition
Review: This version of the 1980 Zagreb film production is altered from its original form. A "new-age" introduction featuring a rotund Priestess presiding over a wedding and some interview excerpts with a few psuedo-science quacks spoils the openning. The original Serb language introduction and other Serb language scenes do not have subtitles as in the earlier US release prints. There has also been some reorganization of footage which doesn't improve any aspect of the film. "UFO Films" who now control the film and distribution rights should be condemned for this travesty... The original was a modest but successful first attempt at a biographical film about Tesla. It certainly won't be too long before some (hopefully capable)filmmaker revisits the subject
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Summary: Nikola Tesla - Far Ahead of Time
Review: Nikola Tesla's name is being recognized as the man who invented the Twentieth Century - It will also realized that he invented the twenty-first century as well. Many of his "discoveries" are awaiting to be developed. He said "My project was retarded by laws of nature. It was too far ahead of time". Tesla's wonderful laboratory designed by Stanford White in 1902 still stands in Shoreham, two miles from my home. I am a Board member of the Friends of L.I. Wireless History and it is our aim to preserve this great part of history and to eventually establish a museum. e mail: nataliast@aol.com
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Summary: The question is, how badly did they scramble the egg?
Review: I was veeerrry disappointed. This movie was awful! It put Tesla in a most unflattering light and distorted historical facts and dates. The beginning is really flaky cult new-agey, then it gets down to the fact scrambling stage. It ignored everything wonderful about Tesla is IS SO WRONG about history. DON'T BUY THIS. IT IS NOT WORTH YOUR TIME. Just because Orson Welles is in it does not mean that it is a good movie. It is not worthy in form or content. :(
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Summary: A good film about the first electrical engineer.
Review: I recommend this film about the man who was behind the first alternating current power system ( what we all have in our homes ), the induction motor, and other inventions. This is probably the only dramatization available about Nicola Tesla. I have seen one other, also a foreign movie, made somewhere in eastern europe, but not as good as this one. There was some talk about making a more expensive version of Telsa's life with Jeff Goldbloom staring, but so far nothing has come of it. Nicola Tesla wasn't all genius, he had some mental problems and entertained some ideas that seem absurd today.
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