Review of Babylon

Babylon (I) (2022)
5/10
Half Great Historical Spectacle about 1928-1932 Hollywood, Half Obnoxious Grossout
28 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Despite great production values, strong performances. Some moving scenes, this film founders on several sciences if almost unequalled grossness in the long history of film.

During the next five minutes an elephant dumps on a man's head and a obese charicature receives a golden shower; and the next 20-minute party with its glimpses of org hectic sex might have been inspired by the 1979 "Caligula," will offer little relief for whatever viewers are still around after the opening. After that the film almost kicks gear, only to be twice derailed, once by an extended lens time vomiting scene and again by the spectacle of a rat-eating man.

With the gross out scenes cut down to mere intimations of what the present cut dwells upon, the film might be transformed to something not entirely unworthy of the creator "Whiplash" and "La La Land."
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