Ultimately, just empty, but maybe that's the point?

Rating: 5/10 (12 September 2019)

Ok, so I don't go see Tarantino movies expecting flat out murder, brutality and gore from the outset, I know he has much more depth than that, and I think he has created some really great storylines in many of his films, most notably the Hateful 8, therefore I would have been happy for it to be what I expected from the trailers; a paean to Hollywood and some of the great characters it's produced throughout the ages, with a little Tarantino blood spatter thrown into the mix somewhere along the line, obviously. Unfortunately, what I got was a self indulgent, misshapen, unconnected, mess of a love letter to an industry which only comes across as disgustingly self absorbed, and empty. The mind blowing addition of some key Hollywood figures feels like it has no baring, or point, and leads absolutely nowhere.
With the exception of some absolutely fantastic acting by Leonardo DiCaprio, the trailer scene being one of the best I've seen for a long while, I left the cinema feeling extremely disappointed. Two words; industry narcissism. I can't believe the high scores, and I can't believe I've wasted another portion of my life writing about it.