Art can be fun!

Rating: 10/10 (28 July 2019)

Haven't had this much fun since Pulp Fiction. Finally some terrific entertainment that isn't a comic book character or a lot of cgi. I'm rating it 10 because I can't think of a way it could have been better. There wasn't a minute in this film where I wasn't interested, engaged, and eager to keep watching. It's punchy, funny, LA glamourous, colourful yet noir-ish, the violence is gutsy and visual but it's Tarantino, so not just a run of the mill punch up shoot out--always a surprise and enough of a twist that you can't help laughing. The editing is an excellent juxtaposition of scenes and images. Lots of recognizable memories if you're a boomer--you'll be going "oh yeah, that's right!" But more than that, it has characters who are interesting, not just cutout action figures, but human beings, from the lead roles to the bit parts. This looks like a movie where the actors sincerely got into the spirit--art can be fun!