Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' hits theaters with a challenge for viewers.
With so little to show for its staggering ambitions, Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" hits theaters with a thorny challenge for viewers: Skip it and instead spend two and a half hours numbing your brain on TikTok. Or show some respect and see why Coppola, 85, spent $120 million of his own vineyard fortune on a passion project he's been spoiling to make since 1977.
"Megalopolis" may be high on its own bloated supply, but there's not a lazy moment in it. Adam Driver gives his all and then some as Cesar Catilina, a visionary architect right out of Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" who aims to build New Rome, a synthesis of futuristic New York and the Roman Empire. If that sounds grandiose, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Coppola purposely crowds his film, so much so that audiences may need a scorecard. Among the veterans, you'll find Laurence Fishburne, who made his acting bones in "Apocalypse Now." There's also a "Midnight Cowboy" reunion for Dustin Hoffman as Nush Berman, Franklyn's fixer, and Jon Voight as Hamilton Crassus III, Cesar's wealthy banker uncle.
Still, the standout in a cast of thousands is Aubrey Plaza as Wow Platinum , a TV gossip who specializes in financial crimes and misdemeanors and gets much needed laughs with little help from the script, which sadly specializes in heavy going.It's up to Driver to hold our interest, despite the handicap of playing a symbol of virtue while the snake played by the towering Esposito gets all the best lines.
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