This is a movie that I have been desperately pushing off this year. I would say that there have been mixed reviews but the reality is that people hated it, and there were a few people singing its praises. As we know I don’t trust the general publics opinions on anything, as I very rarely agree. All that said, even the synopsis for this movie is a hot mess, as is the cast. So let’s go ahead and start in on Megalopolis.
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This whole film is a wild waste of time. It deviates so far from it’s promise in act 1. Coppola has no business using fantastical realism or absurdism of any kind, it’s not his thing and he doesn’t seem to understand how to use it beyond visuals. This is obviously the worst thing he has ever produced, and nearly every single person in this movie was too good for this movie. There is hardly an actual plot, and the development of the story is so chaotic and confused. We needed to streamline the script, whatever commentary that he thought he was making got lost in the atrocity that was the third act. It deserves no more than a 2//10 only because some of the visuals were nice to look at, and he managed to assemble a good cast.
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