REVIEW: Cronenberg blows a tire with ‘Cosmopolis’
Lifeless, stagey and lacking a palpable subversive pulse despite the ready opportunities offered by the material, “Cosmopolis” is a stillborn adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel that will initially attract some Robert Pattinson fans but will be widely met with audience indifference.
DeLillo’s short, chilly 2003 book adopted a Ulysses-like format of a man’s journey across a city in a single day in a white stretch limo to presciently foresee the anarchic “Occupy” mentality rising up to protest the financial shenanigans of the ultra-rich.
The film from director David Cronenberg is remarkably prosaic, confined through long stretches to the dark and narrow interior of the car, only to be concluded by a static half-hour final scene that feels like a two-character, off-off Broadway play.
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