A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III Reviews
Top CriticThis giant turkey was produced, written, and directed by Roman Coppola, who must have thought the dumb fantasy sequences, steeped in movieland imagery, would remind people of 8-1/2 (or, at the very least, Head).
The audience finds out just how long 84 minutes can be. The answer: really long.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Perhaps the best thing that can be said about the film is that it adequately depicts the narcissism of its star ...
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
A movie that doesn't really seem to have any reason to exist, other than maybe to give writer and director Roman Coppola and star Charlie Sheen something to do for a few weeks.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
The film reveals a depth and weight to the Charlie Sheen archetype that we haven't experienced before.
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| Original Score: 3/4
This isn't a despicable film or a lazy one; it's just a doodle, a glorified home movie by a filmmaker who no doubt has one hell of a Rolodex and a few favors to call in.
Sort of like Bob Fosse's "All That Jazz'' minus the music, the wit and the insight, not to mention Roy Scheider's brilliant performance.
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| Original Score: 1/4
A noodling indulgence that's alternately freewheeling and dead in the water.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
At best it is a mildly diverting goof with a charmless lead performance. Its underlying misogyny leaves a sour taste.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Charles Swan might have have been successful if its sensibilities weren't so aligned with its constantly disappointing protagonist's.
From its puffed-up title to the way the cast playfully bows to us at the end, "Swan" is so eager to be a trippy comic lark that it ends up resembling a clown trying to fit through a pea-shooter.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Sitting through The Mind of Charles Swan III does not lead to a deeper understanding of Charlie Sheen. It does, however, demonstrate his compulsion for poor judgment and bad choices.
Seriously, this is one of the strangest and most painful films in recent memory.
With neither the moral bite of satire nor a voluptuary surrender that really basks in shallowness, this is a vague, unsatisfying work.
A precious, arid thing, Glimpse arrives pinned to Styrofoam like a prize arthropod.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Swan is more of a doodle than a fully formed idea, though not necessarily less enjoyable for it, since it was clearly intended to be an undisciplined, anything-goes kinda story.
With such an in-house cast of extended Coppola family sparklers, one would think things couldn't go too wrong in the comedy department, but they have little chance to oil the wheels of a creaky script written around Sheen.
The imaginative twists, histrionic inventions, and decorative whimsy have a winningly ingenuous and energetic cleverness; through it all, this ebulliently overblown character never manages to cut himself down to size.
As the anticipated follow-up to Roman Coppola's "CQ" this is a letdown, but as a breezy romp it could be far, far worse.
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| Original Score: B-
