Film Review – Megalopolis

“Megalopolis” has often been described as a dream project for writer/director Francis Ford Coppola, who hasn’t made a film since 2011’s “Twixt.” The iconic helmer puts everything on the line for his newest cinematic creation, taking a creative and financial gamble few would dare to match. What he ends up with is a bold idea buried under five miles of excess, looking to challenge viewers with a study of a utopian dream that’s gradually torn apart by an overstuffed screenplay and indecisive editing. There certainly isn’t anything like “Megalopolis” in the marketplace, and while Coppola often swings big, he doesn’t have critical coherency to really sell the head-rattling messages on life, love, and society the material contains. It plays like a 138-minute-long trailer for a 10-hour-long feature, and while ambition is certainly valued, the execution of this cross-eyed epic is troublesome and tiresome. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com