what is going on it's all my movie fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott
back again with a brand new early movie review and today we'll be breaking down the new ridley
scott crime drama based on true events starring a killer cast we're talking about house of gucci
ladies and gentlemen a movie i got the chance to check out early and i'm really excited to let you
all know what i thought about the film but more importantly is house of gucci worth checking out
well i'ma let you all know here in this spoiler free review but before we break it all down do
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fans gucci fans out there let me know if this is a film you are excited to check out but more
importantly once you've seen it what did you think about it let's talk about the pros your thoughts
on direction the story the performances does this film have any chance to win any oscars let's talk
about the criticisms were you bored were you not invested by the story were you disappointed by the
film let's talk about it all in the comments below so going into house of gucci i'm not gonna lie i
wasn't really checking for the trailers because again this is based on true events i vaguely knew
about the situation with the family but i didn't know how we got to that point so i want to kind
of stay away from the trades because i didn't want to i want to kind of go in blind right
so the thing that really kind of honestly sold me on the movie this cast is ridiculous i mean the
supporting cast alone selma hayek jeremy irons you have al pacino jared leto you're led by lady gaga
adam driver directed by ridley scott i'm a big fan of crime drama true prime sign me up what did
i think about the film well let's start off with my positives i think this film is heavily heavily
thankful and reliant on these performances even the smaller roles i think of jeremy irons i'm
a big fan of who plays the father of mauricio played by adam driver a very critical part into
his development i think of selma hayek who's also critical to patricia played by lady gaga
small roles but memorable roles but the thing that stood out to me two performances in particular
well four all together but the two performances that really surprised me i know people aren't fans
of this gentleman here but jared leto who does his own little method acting he has either prosthetics
he has to give people weird things to get into the role jared leto will be the talk of the town when
everyone gets a chance to see this film verse both positively which i'm leaning more towards
and also negatively because this film has a lot of different tones but i think these two characters
jared leto and his father al pacino they really kept me engaged as far as the entertaining
aspect of this film because this film has a lot of stuff going on from some really messy stuff that
we'll talk a little bit about later but jared leto plays paulo gucci who is the only son of aldo who
is the ceo of when we introduced the film him and his brother run the company and pablo wants
to get out of his father's shallow shadow and he wants to take the company to the next level but
he's uh not as talented as he thinks he is he's pretty much the black sheep of the gucci family
and i thought that jared leto played that role perfectly in my opinion he was a little bit all
over the place and everyone was all over the place with her accents but i just found that
character designed to be so entertaining for better or for worse i was really engaged with
him but i think the thing that really kind of sold me on jared leto's performance was his chemistry
and this dynamic that he had with his father again played by al pacino who was aldo gucci the
cool dad the fun uncle who's willing to spend as much money as he possibly can to have a good time
which is a detriment to that character when you see the film you know i'm talking about but
i thought al pacino out of all the different tonal shifts that we'll talk a little bit about later i
thought whether it was in the crime drama element the family drama element the comedy elements he
was able to play in all those different genres and i thought he did a great job in doing so
all of his on-screen chemistry with everyone was fantastic and i just was really entertained by
those two particular characters and again i'm not surprised by the performances because we're
talking about two academy award-winning actors and al pacino and jared leto i was just surprised by
how much i was like really entertained by those characters because they could have just been
which again i know when people see this they're not gonna probably like jared leto but i just
found those two actors and those two characters to be very entertaining but let's talk about
something that did not surprise me and that's the lead performance starting off with adam driver
every time i see this man on screen he always knows the assignment and you know i'm he's three
for three for me this year he's he's a great actor i saw you know annette uh just recently the last
duel directed by really scott and now in this film you know he plays our our main character mauricio
and when you meet him very early on the film he's someone that he obviously comes from money and
you know he can get anything he wants but he wants to create his own path his own legacy
he doesn't want to get in the business of the gucci family he wants to be a lawyer but it's
not until he meets patricia played by lady gaga and they have their love and they fall in love and
it's a lot of that first half of the film we get all that but seeing his progression from going to
this humble individual who wants to make his own legacy to being talked into the family business
to ultimately becoming money hungry ego driven and making some decisions that kind of ends up
you know what we see in this film so i thought that the script didn't really give me all those
characteristics from seeing this humble man to this kind of ego driven person but i thought it
was adam driver that made it more believable it was adam driver that gave me that progression
the character more so than the script did so adam drever fantastic but i think the person that a lot
of people will be talking about besides jared leto as pablo i think a lot of people will be talking
about lady gaga as patricia gucci who steals the show she gives a power house performance
i think she will be getting nominated i don't know if she'll win but she gives that type of
performance i've always been a fan of lady gaga don't really listen to her music but i respect her
as an artist but seeing her as an actress whether it was on tv first with the american horror story
you know hotel roanoke she was fantastic in 2018's a star was born and she is just great in this film
patricia she does such a great job of playing very similar to adam driver you meet them at a
young age you meet her at a young age she comes from a pretty humble family they have their own
family business with truck driving stuff like that she seems very proud of her family but it's
not until she meets adam driver's character and she can see maybe a brighter future for herself
and not so much in like this kind of money hungry driven way but just in a way of like i can help my
family out i can grow into you know just empire i can love my husband and be a part of this family
but then it's kind of she has this corruption that kind of gets into her she gets to the greed
she gets into the fame and the fortune that kind of corrupts her as this innocent person that we
first meet so i thought that she gave us so much this role from the the vulnerable moments the
moments you're hating the character and then the moments you ultimately see her making a decision
she makes in the film so i thought again the in the chemistry between adam driver and lady gaga
wasn't as intense as the one she had where bradley cooper and the star was born but i thought those
two actors did a great job and i thought again across the board the performances from fans has
it but lady gaga you might be having uh some nominations coming your way come next year but
i thought again performances were solid or should say great in my opinion and as far as
the narrative and the story goes i was really invested in this film for about the first two
halves i had i have to say the first two halves are the best parts of the film to me and more so
the first half because it's when we get to develop the characters we're really kind of spinning and
this film is long so we we do get to learn these characters and i thought that the most growth
and the most kind of like most informational stuff we get from them is in that first half
we see this young love we see the family dynamics we see the family starting to crack and starting
to separate himself and patricia getting her hooks into marciano how she pulled him from the family
so i really thought that first half all the family drama was really the best parts of this movie
which unfortunately brings me to my criticism there is a lot of tonal shifts in this film
again it's a crime drama based on true events but it's i don't think and i hate to say this because
i'm a big fan of really scott i don't think he had i don't think he was the best director for this
film ladies and gentlemen he is someone again we know the the sci-fi stuff he's great at with alien
blade runner he does the epic stuff with gladiator he's done a lot of crime dramas and more recently
you know american gangster you know all the money in the world and you know true story is like a uh
the last duel so he knows how to handle this genre but for whatever reason man i don't think really
scott had a grip on the story and the narrative and the character development it was just a lot
of messiness going on with the direction him as the director the script wasn't all that that that
kind of narratively speaking it wasn't all that interesting this movie is about two hours and 40
minutes and there was a lot of points i wanted to fall asleep ladies and gentlemen i hate to say it
because there are moments where again the first half the family drama was really focused on once
we get into the crime elements and getting to the characters and the backstabbing and
the kind of the over-the-top-ness and again the performances i can't blame the performances i just
blame the direction i blame the script from the messiness in the second and third act of this film
a production standpoint i wasn't too impressed by the production i mentioned again ridley scott has
a great visual eye but this film was very muted which is so surprising because this is a gucci
family this is the gucci movie i was expecting colors and and some fire costumes i thought
uh corella the costumes were better in that film but i thought the film just looked so muted and
kind of dreaded in the tone in regards to how they were kind of presenting the film the soundtrack
were in the 80s i was expecting this soundtrack to be fire but it was moments where the soundtrack
kind of fit the the time period it was in but a lot of times the musical cues and the score was
just kind of like very lackadaisical so from a production standpoint i was not impressed at all
but more importantly like i said the biggest issue for me was really scott was not the director for
this film the script wasn't all that great i know it's a true story so you can't always divert you
can't always give us the most juiciest stuff and go to the hollywood route but i just found
that the narrative was just kind of paint by numbers very again i don't want to use the word
predictable because it is based on true events but i thought that the film just didn't have
enough oomph in the script to kind of really keep me engaged in this almost 2 hour and 45 minute
film so before i give you all my overall thoughts on my score of the movie if you haven't already
make sure to like the video share the video leave your thoughts in the comments both positives
negatives let's talk about in the comments overall i gotta say house to gucci has some incredible
performances led by lady gaga adam driver two surprise characters with al pacino and jared
leto and across the board i was really impressed with the performances but unfortunately they
did not have the right director directing them in this film the script was lackadaisical very messy
at points a very unsatisfying conclusion to the film and it's really disappointing because i was
really invested in the first two halves but unfortunately it didn't have that splunk that
i was looking forward to so overall i'm gonna give house of gucci a 2.5 out of five and listen i know
for my lady gaga fans adam driver fans you're gonna be impressed by the performance you're
gonna get what you're wanting to look for in the film in regards to performances but from a story
standpoint it was lackadaisical for me but hey that's just my thoughts let me know your thoughts
once you see the film positives negatives do we have any oscar winnings were you disappointed
like i was let's talk about it all in the comments below if you stuck around to this point of video i
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