The screenplay hops from locale to locale like a globe-trotting dilettante while repeating certain themes time and again, only occasionally offering any in-depth insights into the main players.Īs the A-list likes of Adam Driver, Jeremy Irons, Lady Gaga and Jared Leto wrestle with their Italian accents to various degrees of success - sometimes sounding authentic, on other occasions coming across as if they’re overdoing it for an “SNL” skit - it feels as if we’re getting an awards-bait, mostly somber (with one major exception), prestige treatment of the rise and fall and rise of the Gucci brand, when the material might have been better suited to an embrace-the-prurience streaming series on the order of the “American Crime Story” dramatizations about O.J. Overall, though, I’m with the “Bloated” and “Uneven Mess” crowd over the “Absurdly Enjoyable” camp (although there’s plenty of camp on display throughout this film).ĭespite the lurid and dramatically ripe real-life source material, the presence of the great and prolific Ridley Scott as director, the glamorous locations and costumes, and a cast filled with Oscar winners and next-generation stars, “House of Gucci” somehow manages to feel slight and overlong (the running time is 2 hours and 37 minutes) at the same time. Both stories are about wealthy and powerful family dynasties.I will say this: “The Godfather” and “House of Gucci” have three things in common: Rated R (for language, some sexual content, and brief nudity and violence). United Artists Releasing presents a film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna, based the book by Sara Gay Forden.
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