movie review
MEGALOPOLIS
Running time: 138 minutes. Rated R (sexual content, nudity, drug use, language and some violence). In theaters Sept. 27.
There are two battles being fought in Francis Ford Coppola’s confounding “Megalopolis.”
One feud is between a forward-thinking architect named Cesar (Adam Driver), who wants to rebuild the fictional American city of New Rome into a futuristic utopia, and the greedy Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), who prizes profit and pleasure.
And in front of the screen, another war is waged. The opponents? The audience’s earnest desire to enjoy the likely final movie from the genius director of “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” versus the obvious reality that his new film is a catastrophe.
As with every awful movie that wobbles on the stilts of good intentions, you can guess what wins.
“Megalopolis,” for all its high-minded ideals, is impossible to like. To even…
