So many cool sequences and awesome moments. The comedy was hit and miss for me, it's incredibly funny in some scenes and in others incredibly unfunny. Checks all the boxes on a technical level: acting, visuals, costumes.... and the score, the fucking trumpet, I wanna marry that thing.

There's sooo much stuff happening though, it's incredibly exhausting and especially for 3 hours. So chaotic, terribly out of pace, tonally erratic and lacks focus. The performances are absolutely brilliant but it doesn't necessarily make interesting characters, I couldn't connect with any of them and didn't really care about their storylines. It also strays too much from it's original idea with misleading subplots. Most of the time I completely forgot this was even about the 1920s transition from silent to sound movies. It does, thankfully, get back on track before it's third act but you're left realising all these filler scenes were meaningless sinse it ultimately goes for a simplistic ending. The last 15 minutes montage absolutely makes me appreciate film and it's evolution but this movie as a whole: nope. I rather watch the movies featured in the montage, that'll make me appreciate film.

Amidst all this there's the trumpet guy, playing his trumpet... and man did he ever play that trumpet!