Would have made a great book

Rating: 7/10 (17 August 2019)

The parallel of the two stories kind of bended in time - a has-been actor and a new aspiring starlet - is a great idea. The inversion of the Mansons story - great idea. Making a buddy story out of an actor and his stunt double - great idea. A ton of great ideas that don't actually work together. "Look how smart, talented and cinephile I am" - this show-off kaleidoscope of a movie oozes director's self-admiration much more than the actual storytelling.
I guess that's overall a Sony's mistake, they agreed that Mr Tarantino would have the right of the final cut. And that mistake made Mr Tarantino to sink in his own (undoubted) talent, but not in the story. So the story went a little too south.
Would have made a great book though, funny, detailed, unexpected. Literature can tolerate a story that lack crispness and clarity, but is full of atmospheric deviations.