One Battle After Another

Ah I wasn't aware this was his biggest budget. Its amazing how it works in film these days with multiples of that being spent on garbage but one of the top filmmakers who will likely give produce of great substance and critical acclaim, is a high risk for half the budget of the garbage!

It will be interesting to see what he's able to do with the extra cash.

To be fair, Warner Bros took a lot of big punts on original or new-to-cinema IP this year, and Minecraft and Sinners have already paid off. So even if this isn't a blockbuster, maybe they won't be deterred from investing in great filmmakers over the next few years.

I liked it a lot, far from perfect and some strange pacing. Saying that, some of the set pieces are great and there’s incredible cinematography at times.

It definitely won’t be for everyone, and it’s long!

Went to see it in the new Nutrgrove cinema, which was great.

The film itself was brilliant in IMO. The review above is pretty much nail on the head stuff.

DiCaprio and Penn were excellent in it, Del Toro too even though he's not in it as much as the other two.

Highly recommend seeing this one in the cinema. Might even go again.

Saw this earlier and I'm at a loss to understand the rave reviews. I found myself nodding off at times and the score by jonny greenwood is simply awful. It's just someone playing the bongos and smashing the keys on a piano. LDC is great, as he always is. He seems to be looking more and more like jack Nicholson with every movie. Benico del Toro is also great, I think it would've been a way better film had he been in it more. Sean penn is solid, but again, everyone raving about his performance is a bit OTT. The character who plays LDCs missus is obnoxious and very annoying, just all round unlikeable. I've come to the conclusion that whenever Mark kermode raves about a movie(as he did about this one) it means I should either avoid it altogether or go in with low expectations. In a way he's becoming a very reliable gauge for me as to the calibre of a movie, proof by contradiction in a way. The last 20 minutes is good though, but I honestly thought licorice pizza was the better movie, by a long way. PTA, for me, is very hit and miss and this was a miss.

Triggered

Saw this in 70mm the IFI yesterday, gorgeous movie, packed crowd, great energy. The way car chase along the hills was shot made my stomach feel like I was on the road with them. The "Christmas Adventurers" stuff is hysterically accurate to modern times, down to the cold-blooded assassin in the Lacoste polo. They need to invent a new term for whatever Sean Penn was doing with his teeth in this movie. Lots of great laughs in the theatre, Benicio Del Toro stole the show in that regard ("a few small beers", the selfie, "it's 8:15"). Leo continues to choose fantastic roles, Chase Infiniti is a star, some moments in this that give me the impression PTA is speaking from his own experience through Bob.

Will be seeing this one again. And again.

I'm not a movie buff, honestly knew nothing of this movie before seeing it, my wife booked it because she saw Leo in it "so it must be good"

Usually with all movies something would annoy me, but this to me was brilliant. Cinematography was fantastic some scenes reminded me of the "projects raid" in true detective, which I thought was one of the greatest scenes I have watched.

As above stated the landscape scene at the end made you think you were in 4D, the 3 hours didn't feel boring as there were some laugh out loud moments to bring it back from the suspense.

It came at a perfect time, as everything in it is believable with Modern America

The Teyana Taylor character was handled perfect, a build up, then where less was better

I didn't even recognise Sean Penn until I googled the cast after the movie (shows what I know)

The only criticism I would have is Sean Penns final scene (maybe no need for it)

Just saw it. Excellent. A long film which I can struggle with but I wasn't bored at all. Leo hilarious and SP creepy af. Loved Benico and Charlene too.

Stayed away from trailers and reviews so went in blind and it was quite the pleasure. Me and Mr. Anderson have a checkered past as I've gone from high praise (Magnolia, Boogie Nights), to head in hands disappointment (The Master). This was definitely in the former.

There's just a great blend of tension and comedy throughout. I came out thinking that the last time I was brought on such an emotional roller-coaster with a perfect combination of themes was Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite".

There's so many great characters and over the top scenes, with anything involving the Christmas Adventurers club being a favourite, but Penn seems to be having the time of his life. His walk alone had me in stitches. Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor were also both very impressive with Taylor oozing confidence and sex appeal. Chase Infiniti seems to be gearing up for the stardom that she's so fairly obviously being groomed for. And I really liked Leo just doing his thing and moving the story along.

There was definitely some bits that could have been removed. As someone else mentioned, the last five minutes of Lockjaw's story was unnecessary and I was surprised that some characters didn't return like

I'm not confident it will make it's ludicrous budget back but I hope it does so we can get more like it. Hail St. Nick! 8/10