In this history of movies, a phenomenon like “Megalopolis” will never happen again, because it represents a point in time when the director, Francis Ford Coppola, of arguably the best film of all time “The Godfather”, released in 1971, has now written and directed arguably the worst movie of all time.
Megalopolis rivals last year’s “Babylon”, 2022, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, 2022, and last year’s, “Poor Things”, 2023 as three of the worst movies I have ever seen. There is no screenplay, no connection between scenes, no plot to follow, just a series of scenes, that make no sense that are thrown at the audience as they desperately hope for these two hours of garbage to end. Coppola also funded this horrendous film with his own money – a total of 125 million dollars, representing a colossal waste of money. Understandably no production company considered making a movie this bad for a story idea that has been around for over 40 years.
One of the obvious best signs that a bad movie has been released is the comments from critics, This time around they are about the worst ever published:
Jack Martin: There is but one hope that can finally bring us together as a species: the fact that absolutely nobody in their right, sane mind can make heads or tails as to whatever in the hell Megalopolis is trying to do.
Adam Olinger: Megalopolis is the sci-fi movie equivalent of CATS.
Chad Byrnes: It’s painful on a truly impressive level.
A.A. Doyd: Dramatically and philosophically speaking, Megalopolis barely coheres. It seems unrealized even in its unlikely realization, still more of a glowing idea of a movie than the movie itself.
It is hard to believe that a film this bad even exists. What were so many successful people thinking for all of the months and years this movie was being produced, written, and directed? How could anyone believe this movie idea and screenplay could ever be successful? Why would Francis Ford Coppola pay 125 million of his own money to produce a film that is obviously terrible?
Megalopolis stars Adam Driver as Ceasar, the star of this story about the fall of the Roman Empire and how it relates to current-day New York City? Nathalie Emmanuel is on screen probably the most during this mess and plays Julia Cicero the wife of Ceasar. Other unfortunate actors in this terrible movie include Laurence Fishburne, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Jason Schwartzman, Talia Shire, Giancarlo Esposito and Aubrey Plaza. They all probably thought that if someone like Francis Ford Coppola contacted them to act in his movie, they take the role before reading the script. It’s a huge opportunity to enhance your career because a great director is behind the movie. They never could have believed that the film could be considered one of the worst of-all time once released.
Unfortunately, there are too many drug-using critics on Rotten Tomatoes that add up to an overall rating of 49%, changing an average that should be zero. Megalopolis is a run-for-your-life total rating of zero and should never have been released. One of the worst movies I will ever see.
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