The mixed response that Megalopolis has received from critics ahead of its premiere in movie theaters on September 27 doesn't seem to bother Francis Ford Coppola too much. The legendary director has spent multiple decades and hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money to make the ambitious Megalopolis, but as of publication, it has a 51% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which classifies it as "Rotten" on the review aggregator site. He describes it as the best reaction he could have received.
During a live-streamed Q&A session before a special screening of Megalopolis for audiences at movie theaters across the country, Coppola talked about his 2024 new movie starring Adam Driver as a brilliant but controversial architect dreaming of creating a new type of city. This included its middling reception thus far. He sees parallels to another one of his iconic movies, Apocalypse Now.
