Francis Ford Coppola has never played it safe. He cast a then-shunned Marlon Brando in "The Godfather," filmed his Vietnam-themed epic "Apocalypse Now" in the Philippine jungles during a war and opted to make a movie about a bold automaker,

It’s a mess. It’s a wonder. It’s confused. It’s a philosophical argument disguised as a science-fiction epic. It’s “Megalopolis.”