Tarantino lost his Rhythm and Soul

Rating: 3/10 (14 August 2019)

I love Tarantino movies, but this is his worst (well maybe not as bad as Four Rooms, but I count that out). Why? Its not because some people complain about a "conservative standpoint". I dont think that Tarantino is putting the hippies into a bad view -- Manson was a racist, so showing his family as a strange bunch of people is fine.
But what I was missing about the 2 Hours and 40 Minutes was the humor of the old Tarantino movies, I missed the rhythm of the scenes, the rhythm of the dialogues, the depth of the characters, the slow burning drama. Al Pacino and Bruce Dern are wasted. For two ours its a mess of scenes that lead to nowhere, only the final 20 minutes or so he heats up the pace with a nice surprising finale, but before that? Pit has two Tarantino-like very humorous scenes, one with Bruce Lee and another one feeding his dog, but the rest lacks chemistry.
Maybe he tries to copy that B-Movies he adores so much, but I think this doesnt work out, because he is lacking the drama and the humor at the same time. Many scenes just lead to nothing, they dont built upon each other, like the one with the 8-year old girl. There is no Christoph Walz and no Samuel Jackson in here and Pit -- though he is trying -- cant replace them. DiCaprio is just a shadow of himself, he cant decide where his character wants to go. If you want to see a movie about Hollywood, watch Robert Altmanns The Player or Cronenbergs Maps to the Stars instead.