House Of Gucci Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs

2. Adam Driver's Underwhelming Performance

While it may be difficult to imagine Adam Driver being upstaged by both Lady Gaga and Jared Leto here, that's exactly what happens.

Driver is of course a terrific actor, but he feels a touch miscast in the role of what is essentially the story's straight man, Gucci head Maurizio Gucci.

Driver is at his best playing characters with volcanic intensity - not that he can't nail more quiet, mannered roles too - and so compared to his wife Patrizia (Gaga) and basically everyone else in the film, he comes off as a relatively benign, surprisingly uninteresting character.

Driver never seems to find a compelling throughline to approach Maurizio, and so in a film with so many colourful characters and performances, he ends up feeling a bit like wallpaper, honestly.

Nobody's going to say this is a bad Adam Driver performance, because it isn't, but it's shocking how an actor with so much screen presence can feel like such an also-ran in a movie where he plays the second-biggest part.