“Much more than a masterpiece”: Rated 4.1 out of 5, Adam Driver’s best film was a box office failure

It’s Adam Driver’s big return to cinema with Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited new film that took him more than forty years to put together. A former US soldier turned one of Hollywood’s most popular and talented actors headlines this sci-fi epic alongside a host of other stars.

What is Megalopolis about?

Megalopolis is a Roman epic set in an imaginary modern America in total decadence. The city of New Rome absolutely needs to change, creating a major conflict between Caesar Catiline, a genius artist with the power to stop time, and conservative mayor Franklin Cicero.

The former dreams of an ideal utopian future, while the latter remains very attached to a regressive status quo that upholds greed, privilege and private militias. The mayor’s daughter and jet-setting Julia Cicero, in love with Caesar Catiline, is torn between two men and must discover what is best for the future of humanity.

Adam Driver stars in Megapolis alongside Giancarlo Esposito, Natalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Jason Schwartzman, Kathryn Hunter, Grace VanderWaal and Shia LaBeouf, among others.

And Adam Driver’s best movie is…

Adam Driver was featured in Girls and Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha Greta Gerwig, and has come a long way since working with some of the biggest filmmakers, whether in independent films or blockbusters and franchises like the Star Wars saga.

With 46 films and series already in his 15-year career, Adam Driver has become one of the leading faces of Hollywood and one of the best actors of his generation. But what is the work that the AlloCiné community has liked the most?

Adam Driver has many highly rated films with 4 to 5 stars, such as Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story and Spike Lee’s BlackKkKlansman, for which he received multiple nominations.

But the feature film in which Adam Driver appears, which receives the best rating from AlloCiné viewers, is none other than Ridley Scott’s Last Duel, released in 2021, which stands out with 4.1 out of 5 stars.

Inspired by the book The Last Duel: Paris, December 29, 1386 By Eric Jagger, the film reveals old hypotheses about the last famous legal duel in France – also called “Judgment of God” – between Jean de Carouge and Jacques Le Gris, two friends who became bitter rivals over time.

This duel begins after Marguerite, Caroje’s wife, denounces the sexual abuse by Le Gry, at the risk of her life. The course of the battle that follows—a grueling duel to the death between Carouge and Le Gres—puts the fate of each in the hands of God.

A box office flop that was given a second life

Unfortunately, The Last Duel was a box office failure as it was released for around $100 million and only grossed $30 million. But the film was given a second commercial life thanks to its distribution in the video-on-demand market and a second audience that was able to (re)discover the feature film and appreciate it.

Looking at AlloCiné’s viewer reviews, the vast majority of community members loved The Last Duel. According to Alice025 (4.5/5), the movie is a “Great Power Historical Drama”.

On the other hand, marilyne_fgeek (5/5) goes further and believes that “The Last Duel is much more than a masterpiece, it is a true cinematic experience, a journey through the Middle Ages, not a false note”.

Even if netizen Mr cinetok (5/5) gave the last duel five stars, he would “good ten” Because the movie is based on him “Beginning with one of the most beautiful films among his already cult masterpieces (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, etc.)”. He believes it “This story in the (real) Middle Ages, from image to sound, is great, very great art”.

Finally, ConFucAmuS (4/5) highlights the high quality of Ridley Scott’s film script, which tells the story in 3 ways:

The screenplay written by the three (Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Nicole Holofsener) may choose a Rashomon-style structure (the same event is told from three perspectives), the end result broadening the frame to move from news to grim social observation. .

The Last Duel is perhaps the film that best identified all the components of the problem, the consequences of which we are beginning to measure today. So hats off to the whole team because it took courage to make training a mirror of our times.”

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is currently in theaters.