Kim Nguyen's 'Operazione Hummingbird' Reviewed: High-Frequency Trading Drama

Giulia Pezzoli reviews Kim Nguyen's 2018 film 'Operazione Hummingbird' (The Hummingbird Project), starring Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård as cousins Vincent and Anton Zaleski, New York traders who risk everything to build a straight fiber-optic cable across the US to gain a millisecond advantage in high-frequency trading. The film blends technical detail with a redemption narrative, critiquing neoliberal capitalism's profit-driven logic. Nguyen avoids condescension, immersing viewers in engineering and trading jargon. The review highlights the film's balance of comedy and drama, with Vincent embodying an American hero challenging Goliath. The article appeared in Artribune Magazine #58.