Widely-renowned fashion designer Tom Ford, who also served as creative director for the House and was played Reeve Carney in the film, was incredibly outspoken in his criticisms of Scott’s motion picture.

Certainly due to his experience and insider knowledge, Ford wrote in his review for Airmail News that he painstakingly “survived” watching the 2-hour-and-37-minute film.

According to him, living through the film was like living through a natural disaster: “Directed by master filmmaker Ridley Scott and starring Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Jared Leto, and Salma Hayek, the film is ...

One word Ford uses emphatically is “over-the-top” and his comparison of the film to a “farce” says a lot about what his experience of the film was like.

He especially takes aim at the portrayals of actors Al Pacino and Jared Leto as Aldo Gucci and his son Paolo respectively saying that when they were on screen he felt as if he was watching “a Saturday Night Live version of the tale”.