News Summary

• Alex Gibney’s latest feature is so gigantic in scope that it might miss its intended audience.
• Musk tells it compellingly and convincingly, but doesn’t offer much in the way of revelations.
• In many ways, Musk is successful.
• It lays out how he got to power and why he was able to accrue so much of it without being stopped.
• The film juxtaposes his many bombastic claims about autonomous vehicles with visceral footage of a deadly crash involving a Tesla on autopilot.