Introduction to The House of Gucci Movie Review

 

Not too long ago, The House of Gucci movie could only be seen in theaters. When I found out The House of Gucci film is now streaming free on Amazon Prime video, without a second thought, I chose to watch the movie.

 

The House of Gucci movie is inspired by true events about the famous Gucci family. As can be expected, some events in the movie may be exaggerated, while others may contain omissions/additions for dramatic and entertainment purposes.

 

What is my opinion of The House of Gucci movie? Would I recommend that you watch it? Why or why not? 

 

Check out my movie review of The House of Gucci film to find out the answers to the above questions and more.

 

Synopsis of The House of Gucci Movie

 

The storyline will lead you to believe that Lady Gaga is playing the role of a “gold digger” in marrying into the rich Gucci family. However, to the contrary Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani had a wealthy background since her character’s family owned a successful trucking business.

 

This family trucking business was frowned upon by Jeremy Iron’s character, Rodolfo Gucci who was the head of the Gucci dynasty family business. To be fair, the Gucci financial empire was much larger than Lady Gaga's character family 's trucking business.

 

The House of Gucci’s storyline follows how Lady Gaga’s character 's romantic interest and later husband, Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci left his famous and rich Gucci family business for a short while in order to marry her.

 

As the story progresses, Lady Gaga’s character seeks out the help of a TV psychic and card reader, Salma Hayek as Giuseppina "Pina" Auriemma to predict her future.This initial meeting grew into a partnership that led to them conspiring to carry out a crime against Lady Gaga’s husband, Maurizo Gucci. Their conspiracy happend after Lady Gaga's character status within her marriage changed drastically.

 

By the way, The House of Gucci is a period movie depicting what happened within the famous Gucci family starting from the 1970’s up to the 1990’s.

 

 

Slow Moving Parts of The House of Gucci Movie

 

At the beginning of The House of Guccii movie, you may feel as if the film is dragging along slowly. However, during the start of the movie, I think the writers took time to provide background information including how Lady Gaga’s character met her husband and his family. 

 

The problem with this is the background part of The House of Gucci movie dragged on for far too long. The action or “juicy parts” of the movie did not start until halfway through the film. Mind you, The House of Gucci movie is long, lasting a total of two hours and thirty-seven minutes. So you may have to wait for some time before the momentum of movie picks up.

 

The above being said, if you are interested in fashions for both men and women and like to see what people were wearing back in the 1970’s and 1980’s, you may enjoy the first part of The House of Gucci movie. In fact, the highlights of The House of Gucci movie at the start of the film are the wardrobe changes of Lady Gaga’s and even Adam Driver’s characters.

 

In addition to showing fashion trends during The House of Gucci movie, I think the set designers did a good job of depicting this era, to include scenery, vintage office equipment, cars, etc.  

 

Stand Out Actor in The House of Gucci Movie

 

You may think since The House of Gucci film is basically a Lady Gaga movie – that Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiano would be the stand out actor.

 

However, this is not the case. The stand out actor in my opinion, who you may or may not recognize due to the heavy transformation make-up job done on him – was none other than Jared Leta as Paolo Gucci, the son of Adam Driver’s character's uncle Aldo Gucci as played by Al Pacino.

 

Jared Leto portrayed Paolo Gucci, Adam Driver’s character’s as the low man on the totem pole without much brain power. Jared Leto’s acting abilities in this role got increasingly better during each of his scenes to the point where you may start looking forward to scenes where his character appears.

 

You may recall, I previously recognized Jared Leto’s acting skills in my movie review of The Little Things starring academy award winning actor, Denzel Washington.

 

By contrast, Lady Gaga’s italian accent came off as forced and sometimes she did not use it when she said her lines. On the flip side, at certain points in the movie, Lady Gaga showed off her acting skills in a few scenes, such as when she was begging her husband to return to her and her daughter when they separated. However, her acting skills did not outshine those of Jared Leto.

 

 

Assessment of The House of Gucci Movie

 

Due to the number of A-List actors in the The House of Gucci movie, I was expecting I would enjoy this film a lot more than I did.

 

With the exception of Jared Leto’s character stand out acting as Paolo Gucci, the forced italian accents from most of the charactrers were offsetting. Sometimes, I found myself concentrating on some of their unrealistic sounding Italian accents rather than following the storyline.

 

On a positive note, if you like the music of the 1970’s and 1980’s, you may enjoy the music soundtracks that played during some of The House of Gucci’s movie scenes.

 

If you watch The House of Gucci movie, be aware of the caveat that the meat of the storylines do not happen until the film is about half-way over. In other words, to watch some exciting scenes in The House of Gucci movie, you will have to wait for them.

 

Rating of The House of Gucci Movie

 

Based on a rating of 1 star to 5 stars with 5 stars being the highest, I rate The House of Gucci movie 3 stars.