Craved cuisine de Tarantino, served cold Big Mac!

Rating: 5/10 (27 July 2019)

Wow! Hmmm.... Ok, first, go see the film because the big screen is the only place to experience the great Hollywood locations, wonderful cinematography, and big name actors! 5/10 stars does not recommend against seeing the film...it's just my score of the film. Give Sony your money, let Mr. Tarantino rack up a winner cause he needs a hit;now, eat that cold Big Mac, it's not so bad! Sony doled out $90 million to get a Tarantino film, and they got one. Whoopppiee! But.....don't expect to have some out of body experience with great dialog, great acting, in depth subplots, or even cheap thrills! They just are not there....no Pulp Fiction, no Reservoir Dogs! Hell, without the 60's soundtrack, you could just turn off the volume for nothing said that is really important or enlightening until the last 15 minutes....at that point you just get blood, guts, and death! Too little, too late. As much as I really like Tarantino's earlier works, he seems to have just phoned it in with endless car scene with Brad Pitt and the typical pained grimace of Leonardo DiCaprio....but maybe this is what he wanted...hey, no plot is okay with me, but just boring scenes one after another is just boring. Nobody cares...I wanted to walk out several times...I wanted to laugh....I wanted to say, "Wow! How did old Quentin think of that cool dialog?...he is so cool!" But, instead I said, "Huh, well, okay, yeah, yeah, okay....zzzzzz." This film seems like just a real lost opportunity to really tell a great story with wonderfully developed characters who strive for their goals. But even great actors just follow the script, and they did....it's hard to make a great film with a weak script. The film is art...no doubt about it...but, when I see all these 10/10 reviews on here, I just say yeah, water is wine in a desert, and good filmmaking lately is being to resemble the Sahara...so, eat your cold burger, and enjoy it.