Alex Gibney’s Musk examines the forces behind the billionaire’s public image, business empire and growing political influence.
The film portrays Musk’s technological ambition as inseparable from his appetite for control and spectacle.
It explores how companies including Tesla, SpaceX and X helped turn him into one of the world’s most powerful corporate figures.
Gibney also scrutinizes Musk’s public statements, online behavior and willingness to challenge institutions, employees and political opponents.
Rather than offering a conventional success story, the documentary depicts a complicated figure whose innovation coexists with impulsiveness, ideological fervor and claims of erratic judgment.
The result is a sharply critical portrait of a man whose influence extends far beyond technology, reaching into media, politics and public debate.
Musk arrives as scrutiny of the billionaire intensifies, making the film a timely examination of how wealth, celebrity and technological power can reinforce one another.