House Of Gucci Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs

3. The Tone Is All Over The Place

House of Gucci sure is a fascinating and peculiar film to consider from a tonal perspective. Though the trailers marketed it as a strictly campy, entirely self-aware farce, that's only half an accurate characterisation.

In effect, the entire film is an awkward push-and-pull between over-the-top, hammed-up melodrama and its paradoxical attempts to be a more prestige-baiting crime drama.

Scott never really manages to reconcile these competing moods, and so the film often slingshots audiences between thigh-slappingly hilarious scenes and completely dead-serious, even dour ones at a moment's notice.

The result is a mess but an intriguing mess at least, though audiences can't really be blamed for coming away from it not quite knowing what to think, or what Scott's intentions really were.