Worst Tarantino Yet

Rating: 5/10 (29 August 2019)

As a huge QT fan that shares his love of cinema and is inspired by his life story, a movie with some of the most famous actors working in Hollywood today about a topic QT feels passionately about seemed like an instant classic waiting to happen. Unfortunately though, we are left sorely disappointed, having witnessed the weakest QT outing yet.
While no one can question the production quality or the research that went into this, and while he surely does show his adoration for the period, QT seems to forget that movies should have a plot, which he only seems to remember the last 15 minutes of the film.
How many times must we see a montage of a character driving a car with great 60s music playing in the background? Or better yet, can we still have those but also have some plot sprinkled in between? And remember that rising tension that ends in ultraviolence that Tarantino is so famous for? Well we get neither here, or rather we get both, but in separate scenes, making the tension seem unnecessary and the ultraviolence undeserved.
And while the characters seem like they could have been very interesting if fleshed out, do we need to have all of these characters in the movie even if none of them seem to contribute to the (admittedly nonexistent) plot in any way?
And I don't mind changing history at all, but then do we need to have all the participants of the actual event in the movie if we don't have the actual event? Do we really need to spend 20 minutes with an airhead version of Sharon Tate just so that QT can trick us by changing how the story goes?
Somehow this felt both like watching an indie director struggle to stretch a short film script into a feature length movie and like a collection of QTs vignettes to a time he cares for, and not at all like the Tarantino we came to know and love.