One Battle After Another

A group of former revolutionaries get back together to rescue one of their ‘heroes’ (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his daughter (Chase Infiniti) from danger. A disgruntled cop (Sean Penn) chases them down.

“30-something-year-old white guy praises PT Anderson” doesn’t make for the most exciting review but what else can I say? He is just one of those guys that doesn’t miss. This film is quite a change in pace and tone from what we’ve seen before, it’s probably his funniest work to date and when the pace picks up it becomes a full blown screwball comedy.

He hasn’t set many films in the present-day, and this one is really present. I don’t know when he wrote the script but it’s eerie to read the news about American immigration round-ups in the morning, then see a film that tackles it head on in the evening. It’s a touching exploration of being a dad vs being a father, but also nearly 3 hours of taking the piss out of fascists.

Everyone is just so good in it. DiCaprio plays it like it’s the film he’s been meaning to do all his life. Teyana Taylor is super intense and enjoying being extremely horny. Sean Penn is indescribably weird.

Please go and see this! It’s just a total riot. In the pub the other day we were starting to despair at the lack of non-disney non-superhero stuff in the cinema but then they put out a film like this and you realise you are talking total bollocks. The movies are far from dead.