Good performances, but lacks focus

Rating: 7/10 (16 December 2019)

Ever since Reservoir Dogs, I have been a fan of Tarantino. I have to say, Pitt and Leo give some pretty good performances as an actor and stuntman on the tail end of their careers. Love the cinematography. My main complaint revolves around the sudden switches to Polanski's life that seem to come out of nowhere. The movie insists to be focused on the duo, but seemingly at random, the story jumps to Polanski and Tate. It's quite jarring when it happens, and leaves you wondering why the hell you're seeing these scenes. If they were divided more evenly between the two households, it would work as to compare and contrast a star on his way out and a star who just got in the door, but the movie focuses so much on the former that the latter just seems out of place.
Still, it was still quite enjoyable and serves as a bit of a time capsule of an interesting period of American history.