This could have been a straight comedy—Lebowski-style—but instead it becomes everything at once: action, drama, comedy, thriller. It’s amazing how PTA pulls this off.
It says a lot about the state of the world that the whole supremacists-versus-resistance thread has shades of parody and yet still feels completely believable.
The film also has some of the best car-chase sequences I’ve seen in years.
DiCaprio and Penn are on another level. Penn fully inhabits the weirdo role; DiCaprio absolutely nails his character, blending commitment, doubt, apathy, desperation, and exaltation.