Nostalgic Hollywood

Rating: 9/10 (19 August 2019)

Tarantino takes us on a nostalgic trip of Hollywood's golden time in 1969. The story follows the failing actor Rick Dalton (DiCaprio) and his stuntman Cliff Booth (Pitt) as they work various tv shows and movies. They interact at various stages with the Manson family, where Tarantino teases the audience with what is about to happen. Meanwhile Sharon Tate (Robbie) has moved in next door to Rick.
The movie builds up slowly to the final scenes where three of the Mansons break in to kill Rick and Cliff. We finally get a taste of Tarantinos trade mark gore in the ensuing fight culminating in Rick killing one of them with a flame thrower.
Not Tarantinos best movie but the characters keep you interested. I think he romanticised Hollywood a bit too much with the happy ending and could have closer approached the ideas he touches of violence in film.