Francis Ford Coppola’s Most Ambitious Movie Ever Is Kind of a Big Flop For Now

Summary:

• Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis was one of the highly anticipated releases of this year as the movie was set to get an official big premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
• As Megalopolis recently got its first screening at the festival, it turned out to be quite a big disappointment for those who got to see it first.
• As of now, Coppola’s biggest movie ever made holds a disheartening score of only 50% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Francis Ford Coppola has surely expected a better turn of events for his spic sci-fi drama Megalopolis that has been in his mind for almost 50 years before the production started.

Having been set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this year, the movie was definitely one of the most anticipated flicks brought by the widely acclaimed director and s star-studded cast including Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf and many others.

Sadly, the film’s grandeur hasn’t made its trick yet.

Now that Megalopolis got its official premiere with Coppola and the main cast being present at the festival, most of those who got to see the movie the other day aren’t that enthusiastic anymore. Some even had a blatant WTF reaction claiming that the director brutally violated all of the cinema’s pivotal rules.

World of Reel’s Jordan Ruimy seemingly joined the list of those who were left bewildered saying that Megalopolis “is either the most expensive “experimental” movie ever made, or a madly epic failure”.

The movie has kicked it off with quite a poor start, for now possessing a very average score of 50% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Having got an impressive budget of $120 million under its belt, the more-than-two-hour-long film follows architectural genius Cesar Catilina who has to fight with a corrupt mayor of New Rome for a chance to rebuild the city into a self-sustaining utopia after it’s been accidentally destroyed. The mayor’s daughter Julia then comes up on stage as she develops romantic feelings for Cesar and is now torn between loyalty for her father and love for his biggest rival.

With all the criticism heard from the first screening in Cannes, Megalopolis still has some big upsides as many note the movie’s visual splendor reached by, surprisingly, numerous layers of images put one onto another.

Meanwhile others claim that Megalopolis is very unlikely to find love from a big audience with its main idea being some kind of Coppola’s personal message to all the humankind about preserving what we have for future generations.

Overall, the director’s brand new epic film is something heavily pretentious, yet still very inconsistent.

Source: World of Reel