Rudolph lets his directorial vision loose here, a giddy cinematic id that displays more imagination and more daring in every cathode tube and every street sign, every growl and every rant, than most Hollywood movies have in their whole run time.

Structurally, the film is a mess: on screen, the novel's digressive, anecdotal narrative seems directionless and muddled.

…a serious attempt to distil Kurt Vonnegut’s big ideas in a cinematic way, with top talent rising to depict a dystopian present that’s now the dystopian long-gone past…

There's an amazingness to this train wreck... It makes every mistake you could possibly make in adapting a Kurt Vonnegut book.