I'm the heavy

Rating: 9/10 (16 August 2019)

Once again...but with feeling, blood and of course feet. Tarantino lets lift to create the late 1960s of Los Angeles like only he can, and it works on many levels. Remember stunt man Mike? Well this time it's stunt man Brad. Brad Pitt coming into his own in a movie where it would be unfair to call him anything other than Cliff Booth. The stand out performance in a movie with so many. At a time where everything is changing Rick Dalton played exquisitely captivating by Leonardo DiCaprio is a faded television actor trying to keep himself relevant. Cliff Booth is his stunt double and chauffeur and of course we have Sharon Tate played by the oh so relevant Margot Robbie. Part fiction, part based on truth all these characters stories intertwined in a intense finale only worthy of a Tarantino film. What's interesting is how parts of the film is Rick Dalton acting out his scenes or Sharon Tate even watching her own film in a cinema. Watching someone work, these things would normally be seen as boring to some, but this is no normal director. Tarantino shoots the movie in a way where the minor delicate things matter. Traveling to work...he shoots Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth TRAVELING TO WORK!!! Yet somehow we the audience feel like we are part of their journey in the back seat of the Cadillac. No 3D, no special cgi effect, yet I am compelled to be on the tv set with Rick Dalton,Cliff Booth and yes even Bruce Lee. Just as compelled am I to be in the cinema watching Sharon Tate movies. I wasn't around for the sixties, and I certainly wasn't in Hollywood. Yet now it seems captured to a tee. I didn't know the real story and although this is fiction too I now am interested to find out more. Not only is this a depiction of hollywood and hippies, poor Hollywood vs rich but has some great guest stars like Kurt Russel and my all time favourite Al Pacino. The typical poignant never good enough Hollywood actor must convince himself when enough is enough. The content friend in Cliff Booth and the living life happy go lucky actress Sharon Tate. From cinema drive throughs to playboy mansions and the Manson's lair at the Spahn movie ranch where bounty law was shot, this atmospheric depiction into the life of Rick Dalton is as heartwarmingly fun as it is gore. From sixties style radio playing in the Cadillac to old adverts of his show nothing is more of a homage to that lifetime and nobody is gonna tell Rick Dalton goodnight!!!