Review: 4-hour Musk documentary feels like two different films

Alex Gibney's provocative film is compelling but overlong, and there's not much new here for Ars readers.

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Elon Musk is a very familiar figure to Ars readers, given his massive influence (for better and worse) on the technology sector over the last 20 years. Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney’s latest biographical documentary—simply titled Musk —covers a lot of well-known ground and challenges the carefully crafted public image of Musk as a visionary tech titan.

Gibney’s documentary presents Musk as more of a Gilded Age confidence man, rejiggered for the 21st century: an investor cosplaying as an inventor whose real genius is pumping stocks and dazzling investors and the public alike with visions…