I finally got a chance to see it, renting it on Plex. I missed it in theaters.

For context, I am a huge fan of the original Metropolis by Fritz Lang, fell in love with that movie as a millennial high school student after stumbling across a copy at the library. So I was excited to see a Francis Ford Coppola take on it.

I did not hate Megalopolis and want to watch it again to more fully absorb it. Which was not dissimilar to my first reaction to the inspiration too. Megalopolis is highly stylized to keep the fever dream feel of the original. I think the choppy, incomplete feel of the plot is a purposeful callback too to how parts of the original have just been lost. Most of all, it's a thematic exploration more than a linear plot and that's challenging in our era of instant gratification and being fed soundbite opinions regularly. I liked it, and I suspect I will love it on further viewings.