Elon Musk: The Real Life Iron Man

Everything you need to know about the genius Elon Musk. In addition to the classically told biography, a psychologist's view of Elon Musk's childhood is particularly interesting. His drive to become an entrepreneur, his relationship with his father, the bullying in school, to his worldwide success.

I dont often find myself enjoying movies where the villain. That being said, this movie portrays a real life villain that is accurately depicted as man who has an almost intangible amount of money and does things beyond the reach of what any normal middle class person could ever do. Truly this movie is a testament to what you can do if only your family had become increasingly wealthy due to the role in apartheid, and you had the ambition that only a true sociopath can, and suppress your worker's right to organize to the best of your ability, while typically, maintaining your rights within the law.

It was well worth seeing for me and worth a watch for insight into Elon's weird and wonderful life. It takes us right back to his childhood in South Africa, dives into his personal life and follows his journey to stunning entrepreneurial success. This dude is awesome. The greatest innovator of our time. I wish I had his motivation. Thanks for your commitment to making the world a better place. You rock dude!

This is a public relations video for Elon Musk, not an actual documentary.

The issues with this films are manyfold.

1. It gives an unbalanced account of Musk, with both the commentary and the interviewees fawning over everything he does instead of a neutral account of his life and his achievements and failures.

2. In some cases both commentator and interviewees give him credit for projects he never even finished, e.g. The hyperloop. I am writing this 7 years after the film came out and it's still in prototype stage, but they talk about it as if it already exists.

3. There are no dissenting voices, and no real criticism.

4. For no good reason, they interview antisemitic conspiracy peddler David Icke, who also has nothing to add to the conversation.

I'd rather recommend Isaacson't biography, which is not only more up to date (goes to 2023) but also gives a more balanced view of Musks achievements and failures, and especially his flaws. This "documentary" is a fan video with a terrible soundtrack.

This movie was extremely boring. Elon is not a prophet or a savior to the technological world. He is given credit to things when he doesn't deserve it. Most people don't know he weaseled his way into tesla automotive. This might be a shock to his followers but he didn't invent the tesla cars. He merely strong armed his way in with money and cause a rift within the original company to position himself for the leadership position. After he took hold of tesla, it was hundreds of actual engineers that worked/design and improved the cars to what they are now without elons self absorbed narrassasitic and over egoed self.