Not for Fast and Furious and Transformers fans

Rating: 10/10 (28 July 2019)

If you start heading for the exits if a movie goes five minutes without a car chase or an explosion and subtitles immediately turn you off from a movie, don't see this film. You know who I'm talking about.
This is a true time traveler movie. The audience is taken back in time to 1969 Hollywood to spend time with the lead actor and stuntman Richard Dalton and Cliff Booth. It's quite incredible, would love to see someone do this with Las Vegas in the past, I go there a lot and the history of the place is fascinating. I enjoy movies in which the director takes time and care trying to recreate the past. I view it as kind of a sport. If you want to see a production that absolutely failed at reproducing the eighties, watch the first season of Narcos and play spot the historical anachronisms. It's brutal. It's better if you were born around that time. People born in the nineties and 2000s don't understand. They've lived with cellphones their whole life. That and the internet pretty much changed the world significantly.
I appreciated the movie. It's classic Tarantino. I'd have to say that it's his best since Django Unchained, which was his best since Jackie Brown. Kill Bill and Inglorious were awful. I don't care. Django was good but I was worried he was starting to enjoy the violence in his films too much. Once Upon in Hollywood has convinced me he can make a good movie without relying on that nonsense. The violence is there but it's few and far between. Not sure if Tarantino was worried it was costing him work but he did a great job controlling himself here.
Definitely must-see unless you're the sort of person that pre-orders Michael Bay and Vin Diesel movie tickets.