Fur coat over birthday suit
Credit to the actors: they portray these tech billionaires as so unlikable, I had to fight the desire to switch off the fillum for 30 minutes, maybe 45. The four "friends" reuniting for a poker weekend at a remote superhome are exceedingly vain, greedy, callous, petty and with just enough learning to delude themselves that they are always blameless and their position on any topic is valid. That last trait comes in handy when reports begin arriving that the outside world is descending into chaos (shades of 2024's "Rumours"), due largely to A.I.-assisted misinformation from one guy's social-media platform. Indeed, rather than attempting to solve the problems, the scumbags are soon brainstorming how to exploit them - with no sacrifice too great. To say events then spiral into the farcical would be to deny the believability of the absurd pronouncements and abhorrent behaviour of these tech moguls. I'm not sure the term black comedy works, either, since there's nothing funny about the harm such people have done/are doing to society. It's rare I'll recommend a movie with no likable characters, but here we are.


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