After watching this film you might feel like you have been part of a 17-year-long battle – One Battle After Another is one of the most intense films I have seen in years – Leonardo DiCaprio is freaking awesome as revolutionary/stoner ‘Bob’, single dad to the daughter he made with probably the most bombshell-not-blonde, I-wouldn’t-want-to-meet-her-in-a-dark-alley, she’s-so-freaking-scary-AND-awesome, Perfidia Beverly Hills – in a truly stunning, shocking, menacing performace by Teyana Me Shay Jacqueli Taylor. Whatever you do, don’t cross this woman!
Equally menacing is Sean Penn (I’m not usually a fan) as the very evil Col. Steven J. Lockjaw, a man that you actually want to see die a slow, miserable death – well, I did. This is undeniably an award-winning performance from Penn, until the last embers cool…
Making up this quatro of fantastic performances is Chase Infiniti, the crux of the story, as Willa Ferguson – the love made (?) offspring of Queen Perfidia Beverly Hills – does the apple fall far from the tree?
Academy award-nominated, BAFTA-winning filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) and Academy Award and BAFTA-winner Leonardo DiCaprio join forces for one of the most anticipated cinema events of the year with this darkly comedic action thriller.
Loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, Anderson has concocted an explosive combination of cutting black comedy, whip-smart political satire and edge-of-your-seat action blockbuster.
Anderson’s bold visual style and evocative character explorations are perfectly matched by powerhouse performances from DiCaprio and the fully-loaded all-star ensemble cast, including Taylor, Infiniti, and Penn as well as Regina Hall, Wood Harris, and Alana Haim.
In the words of DiCaprio: ‘In this film there is not a second that you can take a breath.’
But wait! Benicio Del Toro – STELLAR.
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