Once upon blah blah

Rating: 6/10 (26 August 2019)

Really? This is supposed to be a Quentin Tarantino picture? While I was watching it in a pretty full theatre, two couples walked out way before the famous ending. I don't know what went wrong here...there's not much going on, except for observing this endless struggle one of the main characters is going through, which after a while becomes tedious and unbearable to watch. When that ending finally starts to unfold, you can't help but wonder what could've been if the entire movie had been that good and intriguing. In spite of previously mentioned, the acting is superb. There is one suspenseful scene before the ending, that almost felt like watching a horror film all of a sudden, which I liked a lot. I understand that a lot of stuff is a nod or a homage to that golden age of Hollywood, however, I don't like how it is represented, especially a certain scene where real Bruce Lee is shown in an unflattering light, undeservingly so, which is perhaps done on purpose or not. Maybe it was supposed to have been ironic, but somehow that irony got lost on me. This film needs shorter run-time. Sometimes it's almost as if one's watching a documentary, minus the incredible ending.