Movie review: 'Megalopolis' dazzles with ambitious art, entertainment

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Megalopolis, in theaters Friday, has been writer-director-producer Francis Ford Coppola's dream since at least the '80s. Finally realized, the film shows an uncompromised vision that challenges what we take for granted as viewers of visual entertainment.

In New Rome, which looks strikingly like modern-day New York City including Times Square, Cesar Catalina (Adam Driver) proposes the construction of a new city, Megalopolis. Megalopolis will be constructed out of his controversial substance, Megalon.

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