One Battle After Another evaluate: Leonardo DiCaprio’s overhyped Oscar-bait | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Set on the Texas-Mexico border, Leo and Teyana Taylor star as revolutionaries Bob and Perfidia Beverly Hills, who raid websites holding unlawful immigrants in cages, rob banks to fund their trigger and bomb authorities buildings. Flash ahead 16 years, and single father Bob is elevating their daughter Willa when former comrades get in touch and a whirlwind begins with Leo operating round in a dressing robe with a rifle, desperately attempting to cost his cellphone. I don’t wish to get into an excessive amount of plot element susceptible to spoilers, however what I’ll say is that One Battle After Another sits someplace between a straight Coen Brothers neo-Western like No Country For Old Men and a cartoonish one like O Brother Where Art Thou? This is a black comedy with weapons, and there are many nuances to watch within the vibrant characters’ contradictions. The middle-aged revolutionary Bob, for instance, has turn out to be one thing of an alcoholic ‘conservative’ dad, fearful about his daughter going out with teenage boys, whereas he watches warfare films and struggles with the fashionable paperwork of his previous militant group.

Meanwhile, Sean Penn steals the present in an Oscar-worthy efficiency as Colonel Steven J Lockjaw, a gristly white supremacist with bulging biceps, on the hunt for the activists. Accompanied by a fast-paced, scatty rating from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, with attractive VistaVision visuals, One Battle After Another is a stable, however not vastly accessible, outing from Anderson. It’s not the director’s best effort, however this nearly 3 hour flick is actually value a search for devoted cinephiles.

One Battle After Another is launched in UK cinemas on September 26.