Mar

14

‘The Hummingbird Project’ Review: What’s the Opposite of Tapping into the Zeitgeist?

Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project rarely questions its characters’ morality or motivations. When it does, even the movie will admit that its protagonists are pretty self-centered and myopic, but then it breezes right past that to dive right back into their vainglorious quest. Although The Hummingbird Project starts off as a bit of a caper, the movie quickly becomes a slog due to weak pacing and characters who never earn our admiration. We don’t always need to like our protagonists, but we at least have to sympathize with their motives, and unfortunately, the characters here rarely get …