This is a lot of big stars in a rather pointless film. Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) leaves his company to lay a fiber optic pipeline from Kansas to New Jersey to shave a millisecond or so off trading times, giving him an edge with millions. He runs into trouble along the way.

There are personal interactions that make the story. The overall plot seemed insignificant. Not sure why they even bothered.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. Salma Hayek with some gawd-awful hair.

Feelings - certain things are hard to convey. We understand betrayal, we understand loyalty. We understand trying to achieve something that seems impossible. And yet I also understand if people are being left cold with this and its story.

It does it best to convey our two main charactes and their struggle to achieve something worthwhile ... all while there are so many obstacles thrown in their way. That does not mean that everything they do is morally right ... or right in general. They are human beings and they are flawed ... but both play it as straight and as perfect as possible. Funny, tragic ... human and weird

Two cousins working at a High Frequency Trading (HFT) firm decide to set up their own HFT operation. To help their venture succeed they embark on an incredibly ambitious plan: to build a high-speed cable from Kansas City to New York. If the arduousness and practical difficulties of building the cable aren't already enough, their former employer is determined to wreck their project.

Largely dull. Not the most interesting and engaging subject, even if you work in financial services. There are some interesting segments, largely showing how the two cousins overcome certain obstacles and setbacks, plus some good comedic scenes but these are few and far between. A great performance by Alexander Skarsgard as the paranoid, nerdy, socially awkward cousin is another highlight but is not enough to save this. (There's a switcheroo: Alexander Skarsgard as the socially awkward one, Jesse Eisenberg as the confident one).

Another problem with the film is that it shows HFT firms as somehow necessary and heroic when in fact what they generally do borders on illegal. HFTs remove capital from people's savings without contributing anything. The only people who benefit from the existence of HFTs are HFTs. Michael Lewis's book 'Flash Boys' examines in depth how HFTs operate and it's pretty damning. Read that instead of watching this.