Megalopolis Spoiler Free Review
Megalopolis Genre: ??? Director: Francis Ford Coppola Released: 2024 Megalopolis, the self-financed vanity project by relevancy-starved director Francis Ford Coppola, follows an architect named Caesar Catalina as he attempts to build a utopia in the middle of New Rome, a city in America run by mayor Franklin Cicero. I could go into more detail about the plot, but to what end? Megalopolis may be the closest I have ever come to describing a movie as "So bad it's good." Because make no mistake: this is a very, very bad movie. Its useless, paper-thin characters stagger around the screen executing the awkward blocking of a high school play while spouting breathtakingly poor, middle school dialogue, its terrible special effects suck the life out of would-be jaw dropping displays of man's full architectural power unleashed, and its cast of (mostly) heavy-hitters is wasted on a banal, bloated, self-indulgent script with nothing intelligent or worthw...