Film Review: Good Effort by Frances Ford Coppola for ‘Megalopolis’

Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 26, 2024 - 8:51am

CHICAGO – You can say this for Francis Ford Coppola, He gets an “A” for effort. “Megalopolis” is a project which boasts loads of ambition, but winds up in a narrative cul-de-sac that Coppola never finds a way to create his way out of … he has so many ideas floating around he never manages to establish much momentum because he’s trying to do too much, too often, all at once

Rating: 2.5/5.0

“Megalopolis” is an ancient Roman epic set in a slightly futuristic New York (now dubbed New Rome). A visionary architect Caesar (Adam Driver) desperately tries to shed the decaying ruin of the present to fashion a city for the future, while his chief nemesis Mayor Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito) wants to keep things decidedly as they are. Caesar has the curious ability to literally stop time, which proves useful in his quest to remake the city for the next millennia.

”Megalopolis” is in theaters on September 27th. Featuring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito. Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Aubrey Plaza, Laurence Fishburne and Talia Shire. Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Rated “R”