God, make it stop, make it stop

Rating: 3/10 (28 July 2019)

He can make fun of Nazis and kill them in an alternate reality revisioning because that's what we all want to see done, but using the Tate Labianca murders as an alternate reality to explore hollywood and violence in US culture seems like a reach, theoretically as well as in Tarantino's actual movie, it's a mess, with weird shifts in tone and energy. And yes, every so often, little scenes that were great, like between Dicaprio and the precocious child actor. Mostly, however, it's a mess, off putting, not because it's difficult art but because it doesn't work, scene after scene for almost 3 hours. Would have walked out but I was waiting to see how Tarantino would land this smoking wreck - it wasn't pretty, there were no survivors.