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Full disclosure, I've never been a fan of Adam Driver. I can't think of anything he's ever done that's any good and this is no exception. I used to think Kevin Costner or Warren Beatty was the worst actor in Hollywood, then I saw Adam Driver lower the bar somehow.

Ironically, he is not the biggest problem with the movie. The biggest problem with the movie is it sucks. It's easily the most vapid movie this decade. If this film were made well, it could only appeal to the most pretentious. Pompous and superficial audience who actually care about fashion brands.

Princess problems aside, it tries to connect the drama of the Gucci family with Driver's marriage and a successful textile / fashion business. It seems to suck ceed more at the family side and less at the business side.

If you want to see this actually done well, watch "The Founder" with Michael Keaton. Every metric of that movie was exponentially better than every metric of HoG.

On the upside Lady Gaga actually turned in the best performance in this flop. Jeremy Irons probably took 2nd but his part was a small one, and Al Pacino phoned this turd in.

The good news is you won't walk out because you'll be asleep before the 1st act is over. They should add "don't snore" to the "no cell phone" and "no talking" warnings before this one.

This is not an installment or reboot, its just a remake of the original done half as well. If you're excited to see the original cast return, don't be. Aykroyd has the most screen time of the original cast and its about 7 minutes. Weaver and Moranis wisely avoided this snooze-fest and the rest of the original cast had about 5 minutes of screen time. If you are going to see the new cast, why?

There's no stand out, nothing original, it's just more of Hollywood's recycling program.

I could have edited this entire movie down to 20 minutes and that 20 minutes still wouldn't be as entertaining as any 20 minutes in the original movie. F for FLOP.

This movie will make you say OMG and not in a good way. So ridiculous, far fetched and preposterous is the story you'll be laughing out loud and rolling your eyes. 3 stars all for originality, maybe 1 or 2 for the Ex Bond girl's acting (the only notable performance) but no amount of acting chops can rescue a laughable farce like this. Call Quentin Tarantino and let him edit the script and direct this and I'd watch it again to see the new, improved version. Until 2.0 comes out save yourself the pain of trying to swallow this fairytale. DC comics are more believable.