High hopes..huge letdown

Rating: 10/10 (26 July 2019)

I have been a huge Tarantino fan since Pulp Fiction. There have been a few since then I like better than others. I had very high hopes for this movie. It was an utter let down. Tarantino has become a victim of his own Coolness Factor I believe.
This movie is filled with the camera shots quarky products, backgroung media (radio and t.v. in the scenes)and directing in general that have made his movies so great. But it is overfilled in a pointless manner. The movie tries to feed off of itself going nowhere for 2 hours. The last Act, which was brilliant, was overshadowed by the dragging of the first 80% of the movie.
The settings, the feeling that it was filmed in the late 60s Hollywood,the dialogue for the most part (though not nearly up to bar he has set for himself)...its impeccable. But overall being lost in itself and stirring in mediocrity for so long o early on destroyed what Once Upon a Time should have been.