A Huge Letdown

Rating: 4/10 (25 December 2019)

I was so excited for the last summer of the decade to arrive because I knew that my favorite director was going to be releasing his penultimate 9th film before he quits (so he says).
I per-ordered my tickets and was so excited that he decided to use the Manson murders as a basis for his new movie. I thought that this movie was going to explore these murders more and that a lot of action would be involved.
I couldn't have been more wrong. It was pretty much a snooze fest even thought they had some of the best actors that contemporary Hollywood has to offer. There's no real "action" until the last 30 minutes of the movie when DiCaprio comes out wielding a flamethrower to roast some poor SOB in the Mansion pool.
His signature profanity and foot fetish is in this movie but all this movie really is, is a "chill out" movie about friends in 60's Hollywood hanging out together. The mood rarely turned dark and you were pretty much laughing throughout the whole thing. It was like a the Res Dogs "Tip" Scene going on for almost 2 hours but with none of the action that Res Dogs had.
This movie has probably divided die-hard QT fans. Some will like it, others will hate it. I'm the latter.
Let's hope he goes out with a bang for his final 10th film in the next decade and really gives it his all before he puts down the camera for good.