If You Love Turtles

Rating: 7/10 (27 July 2019)

If you love turtles you'll love "Once Upon a Time". It takes forever to get going but it finishes strong. There's no shortage of star power lending their talent to Tarantino's twist on a time in the Hollywood Hills when real evil grabbed the headlines. As in "Inglorious B's", Tarantino takes a time in history that we wish went very differently and gives us an outcome that is so satisfying that we go home with a smile and a "if only" in our hearts. I'd still say Pulp Fiction is by far Tarantino's best work with Hateful Eight bringing up the rear. I'm going to go out on a limb and say Once Upon a Time is a distant second. If only you liked any character as much as you do Brad Pitts stuntman. It's not that the acting isn't great, it's just a script that falls flat as it rambles around for about an hour in the telling of the tale. Finally here comes the good stuff with about 45 mins left and the best stuff roars in with about 20 mins left. If this were a book you'd probably put it down after awhile and never pick it up again. But this film has Leonardo and Brad and you paid way to much to put this one down. It's for sure worth sitting through the mind dumbing first half in order to laugh and cheer at the end. It's a good night at the movies, enjoy.