Jordan Kaminski’s review published on Letterboxd:
I have no idea.
But I was never bored.
Don't let my 2.5/5 rating fool you, my true rating for this movie is perpetually moving up and down from 1 to 5 and back again and repeating forever.
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Schrödinger's Rating.
Really curious what this would've looked like 10, 20, 30 years ago during the other times it was supposed to be made.
The special screening started with a live interview of Coppola, De Niro, and Spike at NYFF and it was completely unhinged. Seeing that interview and watching the film right after you could easily tell this was a movie made by the same incoherent Francis Ford Coppola we saw in that interview.
This screening also had the 4th wall break and wow was that disappointing, such an unnecessary thing to do, you won't be missing out on much. Total haughty behaviour.
I think the idea of having an ancient Roman society in the modern day is such a cool concept, but not enough was explored here to justify FFC's use of it. It was cool seeing characters clearly being counterparts to people of the Roman Imperial family though, however Coppola would not commit fully to the history and made them betray how these emperors of the past are perceived. For example, Shia's character is clearly a Claudius-like figure, even indirectly references the Lyon Tablet which is a relatively obscure one, that was interesting. But than the character kinda departs from the real-life figure's personality and nature which kinda made it useless in the end.
Also I doubt there's a connection, but the homes in the actual Megalopolis were exactly how I pictured the homes of the future in "The Dark Forest" by Cixin Liu
I also thought Grace Vanderwaal was a de-aged Kate Hudson
Weird movie, more of an experience.
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