Reviews for MEGALOPOLIS Drop by Francis Ford Coppola Call it “Bonkers”, “Boring” and “The Craziest Thing”

Megalopolis it recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and critics have posted their reviews. The film is said to have elicited a 7-minute standing ovation after the screening, but the reviews that have come out are divided.

The film currently has a 50% score on Rotten Tomatoes. I’m really curious Francis Ford Coppolait’s the new movie, and it’s something I have to see and experience for myself.

Games Rader says of the film: “Almost so bad it’s good, Megalopolis has its moments, if you decide not to take it seriously.”

They add: “Megalopolis is intriguing and often funny, its more outrageous moments inviting comparisons with cult classics like Showgirls.”

Vulture writes: “Megalopolis might be the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy every single fucking second of it.”

Variety says that “Megalopolis is anything but lazy, and while many ideas don’t pan out as planned, this is the kind of career-ending statement devotees wanted from the maverick, who never lost faith in cinema.” .

The Guardian states in its review that the film “is a passionless passion project: a bloated, boring and disconcertingly superficial film, full of high school truths about the future of humanity.”

Vanity Fair writes that it is “the cheapest of trash films, a cobbled-together mess of Coppola’s many disparate inspirations. What really hurts the film, though, is its datedness.”

Rolling Stone stated, “It’s exactly the film Coppola set out to make: uncompromising, uniquely intellectual, unabashedly romantic, broadly satirical but remarkably sincere in wanting not just brave new worlds but better ones.”

THR says, “It’s not likely to be considered one of the most impactful responses to our bitterly polarized political landscape. Nor does it ever settle on a uniform tone, often coming across as both serious and silly. But it’s never bland.”

Here are some social media posts talking about the film.

The film is the protagonist Adam Driverand tells the intriguing story of an architect who dreams of a utopian version of New York City in the near future and his battle with the conservative mayor, who has other ideas about the city.

The epic contains a myriad of plots and characters. “The fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its social problems in this epic story of political ambition.”

Coppola described the film as “a love story. A woman is torn between her loyalty to two men. But not just two men. Every man comes with a philosophical principle.

“One is her father who raised her, who taught her Latin in her womb and is devoted to a much more classical vision of society, the vision of Marcus Aurelius.

“The other one, who is the lover, is the father’s enemy but is dedicated to a much more progressive vision of ‘Let’s leap into the future, let’s skip all this rubbish that has contaminated humanity for 10,000 years.’ Let’s discover what we really are, which is an enlightened, friendly and joyful species.’”

Coppola also spoke about the film and his goal, saying, “My first goal is always to make a film with all my heart, so I started to realize that it was going to be about love and loyalty in every aspect of human life.” .

He explained: “Megalopolis echoed these sentiments, where love was expressed in an almost crystalline complexity, our planet in danger and our human family almost in an act of suicide, to become a very optimistic film that has faith in human being possessing the genius to heal any problem. put us in front.”

The director added: “I believe in America. Our founders borrowed a constitution, Roman law, and a senate for their kingless revolutionary government. American history could not have happened or been successful without classical learning to guide it.”

Coppola also previously said of the film: “So somewhere, long after I’m gone, all I want is for them to discuss [Megalopolis] and is the society we live in the only one available to us? How can we improve it? Education, mental health?

“What the film really proposes is that utopia is not a place. It’s how can we make everything better? Every year, come up with two, three or four ideas that make it better.”

He continued, “I would be smiling in my grave if I thought something like that happened, because people talk about what movies really mean if you give them something.

“If I encouraged people to discuss marriage, education, health, justice, opportunity, freedom and all these wonderful things that human beings have designed. And ask yourself the question: How can we make it even better? It would be great. Because I bet it would make things better if they had that conversation.”

It also includes the cast of the film Shia LaBeouf, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Aubrey Square, Jason Schwartzmann, Laurence Fishburne, Grace VanderWaal, Kathryn Hunter, Giacomo Remar, Talia County. Dustin Hoffmann, Chloe Fineman (Saturday night live), Isabelle Kusmann (Licorice pizza), D. B. Sweeney (Fire in the sky), Bailey IvesAND Giancarlo Esposito.

Driver had already spoken about the film saying: “The film is crazy. It’s so imaginative and big and epic, and it’s bold. It takes a risk and I couldn’t be more excited about it.

It will be an interesting cinematic experience.