DICAPRIO RUINED THE MOVIE... or should i say, his character ruined the movie

Rating: 7/10 (26 July 2019)

Divine, beautiful and utterly enchanting...Quentin Tarantino's back-seat ride through 1960s Hollywood is an explorative but also very passive movie experience.
Dipped with just the right amount of charm, Once is infused with cinematic inspiration from beginning to end, but isn't very explicit in its direction.
The actor-stuntman story and relationship never created any sense of fluency or co-relation to it's ultimately wondrous fantasy fairy-tale like theme and revelation presented in its ending.
What we get is one of the greatest actors of our generation, scream and pout in nearly every scene he is in (like a nagging pup crying for his 2nd Oscar), as QT misleads us with a nervous-breakdown character study, rather than the classic retribution tale it could've, and ended up trying to be.
Even if it enchants with a craft made to enrich our souls, Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood lets itself down by taking its world and characters, that easily could've lended to being one of the masterpieces of our time, and bloats it with pointlessly prolonged film-set extravaganzas and a day in the life that's just not worth the trip.
The film however is carried by wondrous transition moments, and a third act that poses a breath of fresh air with an unquestionably spellbinding denouement.
But when it's all said and done, you leave somewhat shortchanged by a movie that never really reflected a sense of humanity in its funky, atmospheric joy ride. And it certainly not one of QT's most profound works, but it tries...