I just came out of One Battle After Another, and at this point, I must confess my complete lack of understanding at the critical hype surrounding this film.
This struggle between verbose and ridiculous revolutionaries on one side and verbose and grotesque white supremacists on the other (a fine series of pleonasms, I must admit) deeply bored me.
Perfidia-Teyana Taylor is as annoying as it gets, and weโre relieved to see her leave fairly early. The character played by Sean Penn is pretty much idiotic in every scene (read: "Oscar-worthy"), while DiCaprio runs around in a bathrobe ร la Dude from The Big Lebowski for two hours, dropping "fuck" every ten seconds.
The only somewhat likable characters are Sensei Benicio del Toro and, above all, Avanti, played by the excellent Eric Schweig, who at least has the merit of being barely present and the virtue of acting while keeping his mouth shut.
In short, seen once but not twice, a bit like The Master by the same director, similarly hyped and, for me, similarly hollow