House of Gucci – 6.8./10

Jadd J.A.D.D. Jadd Is this as good as The Last Duel? No but it was a entertaining and engaging movie. A lot of people don’t know this about me but I'm huge Lady Gaga fan. And she was absolutely phenomenal she dominated very second she was on screen. I rooted for her and felt for her situation being a business woman in a man's world. But as the movie went along she gets more cold, manipulative, greedy and wickedly evil. And Lady Gaga does all of that effortlessly. The rest of the cast like Adam Driver, Jeremy Irons, Al Pacino, Jared Leto and Salma Hayek everyone exceptional performances. Ridley Scott makes a classic sixties/seventies style movie while being lash and fashionable. The cinematography has a gritty, grainy and photogenic atmosphere. The make-up, costumes and prosthetics are incredible and detailed. The production, set designs are stylish and first rate. I understand the controversy about this movie of Jared Leto's role as Paolo Gucci being a Italian stereotype and disservice to the real guy and I understand that side. I know actors do a lot of vocal work and studied to get the accents they're doing but other then Lady Gaga who knocked it out of the park with her Italian accent but the rest are badly noticeable. The first acts had great storytelling about these two people in love but then the script takes a random and clumsy turn into a murder thriller. And that’s issue the script feels like it’s tackling to many things at once and that messes with that tone. It didn’t know what it wanted to be. The movie is two hours and thirty-eight minutes long and it rushes to the end and left out a few important details that should’ve been on screen to give us some clarity. And with then when shifts to Adam Driver being more focused on it’s integral to the story it Just feels like I’m watching day to day business. Lady Gaga disappears for a good chunk of it but when she comes back you are interested again. Salma Hayek’s role is important to what happens but it feels quite random and not very smooth. The twenty year timeline is also all over the place but that is to be expected from a movie that is ‘based on a true story.’