The reviews of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" are in. Critics either admire the movie's ambition, or call it a spectacular failure.

It’s not very common to walk into the theater with a clear idea — or any idea, really — of the general reaction to the film I’m about to see, especially a premiere. However, the anticipation for Megalopolis was such that it was impossible to avoid the initial opinions originating from the Cannes Film Festival,

Godfather” director Francis Ford Coppola waited 40 years to make his passion project. After seeing it, the Monitor’s film critic wonders, “What in tarnation has he wrought?”

Francis Ford Coppola waged war with studio heads throughout the making of “The Godfather.” Production on his 1979 Vietnam War epic, “Apocalypse Now,” was so troubled — there was a typhoon and a near-fatal heart attack — that it was chronicled in a documentary.

Starring Adam Driver, the legendary filmmaker’s $120 million epic is a fatuous, head-spinning urban fable about the perils of decadence.