It’s probably the moment when Lady Gaga and Salma Hayek are having a mud-bath toacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure her and talking with regards to’concerning’with respect to casting spells that you realise House Of Gucci never had any detoken s on normality. Gaga is Patrizia Reggiani, the wronged woman who has turned the fashion world on its head. Hayek is Pina Auriemma, a clairvoyant who somehow becomes embroiled with it all after Patrizia phones in to her call-in television reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue . Just because. It’s a bizarre sub-strand of a film away with the fairies from the start.###It’s based on Sara Gay Forden’s 2001 reserve The House Of Gucci: A Sensational Story Of Murder, Madness, Glamour, And Greed, which is exactly what Ridley Scott’s adaptation is. And it is not interested in subtlety. Eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything that happens is out-sized, and pretty much eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance is huge: other than Jack Huston who, almost jarringly naturalistic as businessman Domenico De Sole, didn’t acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure the memo, and Adam Driver, whose Maurizio is in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the most part unassuming, the acting here is, well, loud. Gaga, never not compelling, consistently chews the scenery like a fabulous piranha. Al Pacino, handing out pomp like there’s no tomorrow as firm’enterprise chairman Aldo Gucci, is like an ageing Scarface, while Jared Leto… well. Where to begin with Jared Leto?###In House Of Gucci, Jared Leto looks like he’s amble’stroll’bimble’meander’roam ed over from Gotham City. In fact he looks a little like Batman Returns’ Oswald Cobblepot, and his perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance isn’t entirely dissimilar. Ditching his own immortal beauty in/with regard to’concerning’regarding prosthetics that present him as bald, portly detoken er Paolo Gucci, he sings eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully line. No potential intonation is left unturned as he makes love to vowels, goes to town with consonants. It's possible that no actor has ever had as much fun with a role as he does here. Is he great, or just ridiculous? The answer, of course, is yes. Both. You’d happily pay to see him do a one-man reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue on Broadway with this shtick. Whatever the hell it is.###E grossly thing that happens is out-sized, and pretty much e grossly perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance is huge.###And that sums up the film itself. The whole thing wants to be Sharon Stone’s character in Casino, and it is, and it isn’t. Despite the story’s operatic sweep, despite its undeniably Shakespezone’district’region n entanglements, it feels oddly undramatic, the filmmaking itself quite detached. And certainly, despite all the catastrophe, you won’t be shedding tears over anybody, but maybe that’s the point? It’s a case-study of a business gone amok, and while you don’t truly acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure to know any of these individual as actual human beings, you probably wouldn’t want to.###But that’s by the by when there’s so much madness to behold. There are lines here in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the ages (intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully much relished by those delivering them). “Never confuse shit with chocolate.” Or how with regards to’concerning’with respect to , “A dinosaur posing as a butthole.” Perhaps best of all: “It’s a memory wrapped in Lycra.” You possess’own’nurse to hand it to Ridley Scott, still, at 83, making utterly unique films that, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding whatever reason, demand your attention. And Jared Leto will haunt your dreams.