Yahoo News Megalopolis records one of Adam Driver's lowest-ever Rotten Tomatoes ratings
Megalopolis, the new film starring Adam Driver, has become one of the lowest rated films of the actor’s career.
The film, a passion project for director Francis Ford Coppola, follows architect Cesar Catilina (Driver) as he is given the power to manipulate space and time, with the character using his ability to build a new utopia in New Rome.
In addition to Driver, the stacked cast for the film includes Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Jason Schwartzman and Talia Shire, with Coppola also penning the script.
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Following its premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, Megalopolis has received polarised reviews thus far, with its 52% approval rating – from 135 reviews – on Rotten Tomatoes being one of the lowest rated films of Driver’s career.
You can read a selection of reviews below:
"If Megalopolis, as many speculate, marks the end of Coppola’s career as a filmmaker, it flourishes in that finality, having held back or compromised nothing."
"Megalopolis is not a disaster, but it’s far from a success. It’s a bacchanalia that’s bursting with so many ideas, so many characters, so many great lines and truly terrible ones as well that it’s nearly impossible to digest in a single, baffling viewing."
"Is it an unfashionable ode to optimism and the freedom to create, a vision as generous as it is crazy as it is overflowing with delirious invention? That, too."
"Megalopolis might be Coppola’s decades-in-the-making passion project, an epic of ambition and imagination, but it is also a magnificent mess of a masterpiece, as irredeemably silly as it is sincerely sublime."
"Ultimately, this isn’t the car crash it could have been. It is, though, deeply flawed and very eccentric."
"A work of art that actively practices what it preaches, a celebration of unfettered creativity and farsightedness that offers a volcanic fusion of hand-crafted neo-classicism while running through a script of toe-tapping word-jazz."
Megalopolis is in cinemas on September 27.
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