The sci-fi film has been 40 years in the making and some critics say that it shows.
According to its official synopsis, the filmis “a Roman Epic fable set in an imagined Modern America.
So, were critics blown away by the film thats been over 40 years in the making?
Cesar Catalina (Adam Driver) and Julia Cicero (Nathalie Emmanuel) in Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis.'.American Zoetrope / Megalopolis / Mihai Malaimare
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“First hour was a disaster, an endearing disaster but still poor, wrote critic Robert Daniels.
Then the second hour hit; I totally bought in.
Much doesnt work in Francis Ford Coppolas passion project, but its visual language is sharp.
Times’Matt Brennan, Megalopolis genuinely moved me.
It reads as a closing statement from one of the cinemas greatest artists.
His colleague Joshua Rothkopf added, “I thrilled toMegalopolisin all its overstuffed, crazy ambition…
It’s definitely not boring.”
Other critics were less taken by Coppolas vision.
the heavy-handed dialogue feels spit out of an AI generator.
the fun ambitious visuals dont save it.
Mainly saddened by how cramped and unpopulated and weirdly inexpensive this feels.”
How does a 120M movie look this cheap?”
If Coppola is happy with it then I guess thats something?"
Read on for more social media reactions toMegalopolis, which is expected to hit theaters later this year.
