There is only one person to blame for this very bad film and that is the writer, director and star: Bradley Cooper! This is an ego project, and it oozes Bradley Cooper, not Leonard Bernstein, from every, single frame. This is not a story of how great Lenny Bernstein was, but rather, how great Bradley Cooper thinks Bradley Cooper is.
The make-up, prosthetic's, and Cooper's comically inept attempt at Bernstein's accent, are all ludicrous. The opening sequence, of an aged Bernstein, looks like George Hamilton OD'd on spray tan! Then, the switch to B&W and the younger Bernstein, and Cooper unveils the schnozzola that must have been left over from 'The Jimmy Durante Story.'
This is 'Ishtar,' the musical!
The make-up, prosthetic's, and Cooper's comically inept attempt at Bernstein's accent, are all ludicrous. The opening sequence, of an aged Bernstein, looks like George Hamilton OD'd on spray tan! Then, the switch to B&W and the younger Bernstein, and Cooper unveils the schnozzola that must have been left over from 'The Jimmy Durante Story.'
This is 'Ishtar,' the musical!