10 Directors Who Just Made Their Worst Movie
4. Francis Ford Coppola - Megalopolis
Francis Ford Coppola is undeniably one of the greatest and most successful filmmakers of all time, counting numerous stone-cold masterpieces to his name, from the first two Godfather movies to Apocalypse Now and The Conversation.
Coppola's scant late-period filmography is certainly a far cry from his legendary run of classics throughout the 1970s, but even so, he's never made a film quite so baffling as Megalopolis. For all of Coppola's wobbles in the past - most infamously the Robin Williams-starring dramedy Jack and his low-budget 2011 horror film Twixt - Megalopolis is one of the most mesmerisingly misguided misfires in cinema history.
To Coppola's credit, he spent $136 million of his own money to bring this epic sci-fi film to life after gestating it in his mind for almost 50 years, but the end product ultimately feels strangely cheap and, despite its intermittent flashes of unintentional comedy, is mostly boring.
That Coppola managed to stack his cast with so much talent only to tease worst-ever performances from several of them - most frustratingly of all Adam Driver - is enough to make Megalopolis the bleakest outing of his storied career.