Trekkies, be afraid.

Rating: 7/10 (19 August 2019)

Quentin Tarantino's 9th film has got me wondering what his 10th is going to be like. It's got to be making a few Star Trek fans nervous.
Whereas his first three were strange and enticing like a school friend offering you your first toke on a spliff, his ninth is a stranger trying to entice you into his car and take you somewhere that seems comfortably familiar yet which turns out to be quite menacing.
The thing is: you have absolutely no idea where this film's plot is taking you. It meanders and changes scene just when you think you've got it sussed. There are some fantastic scenes, many which are totally evocative of the time and the place. Background sound, TV & radio for instance often set the scene. Leonardo and Brad & Margot are providing an acting class, pulling you into their respective characters. They make you forget your earlier questioning about where this film is going. It's like the stranger giving you a lift knows someone you know and he is no longer the stranger that you thought.
Then pow - it turns out he's deranged and only then do you realise that the film has reached its climax.
Its good, great, and a little bit not good. Trekkies, be afraid.