Had to stop watching it mid movie The story is all over the place had my brain confused at all moments 2 out of 10

Will not chase down a movie while Copola shops a for more cash. Sorry, hubris killed the movie before I’d care to spend that much time on.

I can't understand how this film was boycotted so much, a dream of Coppola coming true, and a masterpiece we weren't ready for. Maybe in 30 years it will be understood.

Walked out but still found elements of it. Fascinating. Wished I had stayed to the end after a day or two.

Difícil de creer que este bodrio haya venido de Coppola, un tipo que supo darnos tantos clásicos en su momento y que haya caído tan bajo. Pretenciosa a mas no poder, un manifiesto raro que huele a naftalina, aburrida en muchos momentos, un viaje en acido rancio en otros, (un poco) entretenida cuando la trama finalmente se digna en avanzar solo para volver a caer y empezar otra vez a apestar. Y hasta ahora solo me referí a la historia porque tiene un problema importante en lo visual, que combina efectos que parecen salidos de una película de 100 millones (como supuestamente es) mientras que otras escenas parecen de playstation 1 o directamente de Superman IV (y me animaría a decir que Superman IV se ven mejor) cosa que solo logran hacerla mas ridícula. Ah y la remata presentando un elenco bastante digno pero que acá parece que ninguno actúa, siempre tienen las mismas expresiones sin importar lo que acontece. Desastrosa, una decepción.

Way ahead of its time. One of those films that needs to be watched a few times to truly appreciate the scale of it.

I’ve heard the film’s detractors cruelly refer to it as Megaflopolis, so I’ll throw a new one on the table – Messalopolis, because Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is the most incoherent thing with a budget I have ever seen in my entire life. https://thegeekshow.co.uk/megalopolis-2024-review/

I was really looking forward to this movie after watching the trailer. It looked visually stunning. I was so disappointed. Half way through the movie I just wanted it to end. I did continue to watch it to the end but didn't care about any of the characters. I felt I would get the same enjoyment if the sound was off!

Pompous yet tedious, its forced grandiloquence makes it difficult to look at, and impossible to admire.

I felt this to be for the most part a wild roller coaster of crazyness but if you look deeper the basic story of wanting something better for mankind is their .

**Megalopolis** is a mess—an ambitious, weirdly fascinating, and deeply flawed mess. Francis Ford Coppola, once a cinematic titan, swings for the fences here, but instead of hitting a home run, he barely gets on base. The cast is *insane*—Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Giancarlo Esposito, the list goes on—but even they can’t save this from looking like a high school Shakespeare production shot in front of a bargain-bin green screen. The plot? There’s actually something brilliant in there. You can feel the echoes of a great film desperately trying to break through, but it's buried under layers of cringeworthy dialogue and baffling creative choices. The faux-Shakespearean script is more pretentious than profound, and the visuals? Some of the worst VFX I’ve seen all year. It’s like they just *gave up*. And yet... I was never bored. I enjoyed watching this trainwreck unfold, just not in the way Coppola intended. If someone else had directed it, I genuinely think this could have *worked*. Instead, it’s a fascinating failure—one I wouldn’t necessarily recommend, but also one I don’t regret seeing. A true enigma of a film. 2.5 stars.

Just baffled at everything in here, there really are career worst performances by a lot of the actors involved here. The production design is really rough. Adam, I understand why you maybe agreed to do this but I am going to need you to start lock in from now on.

At the risk of cliche - Megalopolis defies critical analysis. From a technical perspective, it’s barely even a movie - it’s a series of retro-future vignettes connected by their shared plea to the better angels of Western philosophy than plot. It would be cruel to judge Coppola for his quixotic ambition - he really tried with this one. We should adopt the confounding humanist spirit of his imperial protagonist and give him credit for that.

What a piece of junk. Massive waste of budget... and time

It’s reviewers are indicative of the masses it portrays. If you liked Inception, the Godfather, and Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo and Juliet, then you’ll probably like this.

Brilliant and deep. It’s like Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo and Juliet, the Godfather and Irishman, some Titanic, and a classic tale crossed with some stage play. It is entirely its own entity. Some may not understand it, some may not like it. But it has a core of deep meaning, is beautifully portrayed, and unique. MMXXIV

Absolutely no sense movie. The closes I've ever been to get out from the cinema before the end. Salve you some money and time and let this movie be forgotten.

Positive Adam driver Negative Everything else If I was FFC, I would have not only not released it but burned it beyond recognition

I give it half a star for the incredible casting and by mercy for Coppola, but this" "movie" is catastrophic, boring and grotesque. It wouldn't wish my worst enemy to see it. Seems like 99.9% of the budget went to the actors and the remaining 0,01% to the scenarists.

The best films are the ones that give me the most emotional reaction from. This is a rare case where I felt happy, sad, angry, and frustrated all at the same time to a not-so-great film. This one is a true fascinating mind-blowing experience for better and worse. Francis Ford Coppola has directed my favorite film of all time the Godfather so I know of his high filmmaking vision. With his first theatrical feature since The Rainmaker, there's a lot to take in. Positives: The cinematography is gorgeous, very IMAX worthy on the scale of Blade Runner 2049. The acting (for the most part) was pretty incredible as the seasoned cast knew the material that were given and they still got the job done. The moral of a what's the true good and evil in a tyrannical society referencing Shakespeare, confucius, and Sophocles was pretty present and truly ambitious which I appreciate from Coppola from the get-go. Negatives: The editing was atrocious. Scenes flip-flopped all over the place and I can see where others can be confused with the plot at hand. Shia LaBeouf has proven before he can give a solid performance, but unfortunately here he overcooks his performance so hard and doesn't have the charm of Nicolas Cage or William Shatner to back it up. Finally the ending, like the rest of the film, was ambitious but also felt like a copout compared to where the film started. I appreciate the twist Coppola presented that it was curve ball, but others could feel cheated. Overall: An ambitious, fascinating, yet clunky film left me torn in both I loved and disliked this film at the same time. It's better than Jack though.