Just saw this. Here’s my honest review. I knew going in that in order to enjoy it, I’d have to do alchemy on my brain and fully transform myself into a ‘No Kings’ Boomer who’s been in cryogenic stasis for 50 years and thinks the world is run by secret societies of KKK anti-miscegenationists (and not, say, gay San Francisco AI-worshipping transhumanists) and that Free Borders, Free Bodies, Free Choices (?) is a coherent political ideology. Somehow I managed to do that, and I will say, in the film’s favor, that it manages to avoid being a three-hour lecture via fast-paced action with a heavy emphasis on physical comedy. If you go into this with the mindset that it’s basically a Looney Tunes cartoon chase with Leo DiCaprio and Sean Penn in the roles of Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog, respectively (and they both give genuinely cartoonish performances, very funny), it’s a good romp so far as it goes. A fun diversion, an entertaining piece of fluff. I thought the final sequence with a meandering chase through lonely desert roads was a particularly cool and classy piece of filmmaking and wished it was in a movie not quite so goddamned stupid. More interesting than the plot or “message” is what’s suspiciously absent. The movie is desperately trying to appear relevant with references to colonialism and land-acknowledgments and such, but it stridently, carefully avoids mentioning something that’s been VERY prominent in left-wing discourse since October 7th, 2023. I’m not going to see this twice to be sure, but I don’t think I saw any you-know-what flags in the scenes of black-bloc antifa protests which seems like a hilarious oversight. Also noteworthy that the score is by the Radiohead frontman, which I believe lately has come out as a vociferously pro-Isreal band—tsk tsk! So the ultimate lesson I took from the film is that anti-fascist Revolution is necessary and good right up to the point where it might ‘rock the boat’ a little too much with your Hollywood financial backers—which is, I suppose, a timely and relevant message after all. Anyway, to sum up, I should probably read ‘Vineland.’