Zeroville (2019) review

After seeing a movie or two - and getting a tattoo on the back of his skull of Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor in A Place in the Sun - Vikar (Franco), a Travis Bickle-type loner, goes to L.A. to work in the film industry, starting off building sets and moving into editing (where he learns from a master, played by Jacki Weaver) and falling in love with an actress (Megan Fox).  I've read reports about this having a 'troubled production' (aren't many of them in one way or another?) and the critics that did see it trashed it (maybe deservedly so), but I like the spirit of it ... a little: it's Franco praising the independent filmmakers (Lynch, Jodorowsky, Dennis Hopper) who just did it on their own terms and worked around the spastic, narcissistic ego factory that is Hollywood ... which is what I think James is trying to do.  Matthew Diezel and Joe Murphy are listed as the editors; after watching the near incoherent last half-hour, I was wondering if they had some breakdown themselves.