Awful

Rating: 1/10 (23 August 2019)

When directors make great films they create an aura around their work that unchecked can lead to disaster. All artists can suffer from this when all the people around them, treat them like a Messiah, who can do no wrong. I don't even blame tarrentino I blame the people around him. Those who can't give him honest feedback and help him understand the rabbit hole he is going down.
Now don't get me wrong. Leo does a good acting job and Brad plays the attractive anti role well. The lack of plot, the misdirection (which is neither clever or needed) the editing, the pacing of the film.. all terrible.
If this screenplay didn't have Quentin tarentino written on the cover it would have been lucky to have been recycled for toilet paper. Perhaps this should be the test for scripts for all well know directors - would it get made without your name.
I expect people to disagree with this review. They may think I don't get it and they may be right. But my gripe is I know tarrentino is better than this. Pulp fiction, reservoir dogs, inglorious bastards, the hateful eight... Some of the best acting and screenwriting I have seen.
Once upon a time in Hollywood is a long, dull messy unedited bore of a film that didn't feel like it knew what it was - awful
Watch 'bad times at the el royale' instead