So close, yet so far

Rating: 4/10 (26 November 2019)

Let's start with what the movie does right. It has beautiful cinematography and acting. And I do mean BEAUTIFUL. The camera work is on point, and you really couldn't ask for a better crew to do the job that they were asked to do. Now with that said why did I give it a less then stellar review? Because Tarantino while being a great director wrote a plot that I can only describe as incomplete.
Let's break it down, I understand the story between the stuntman and the actor. But what in holy hell was the point of putting Margot Robbie in this movie? I'm being serious, why? She served absolutely no purpose in this movie at all, she did nothing. She took up like 20 minutes of screen time and in those 20 minutes not 1 second was spent on anything even within the realm of possibility of being close to relevant to the plot of the actual movie. The remainder of the time you had Brad and Leo doing there thing, and while it was interesting in its own way to watch it had absolutely nothing to do with Margot.
So yea, this was 2 hours and 41 minutes of my life that basically can be summed up by saying you made a movie about a guy who was an actor and tried to stay relevant. He had a buddy, and they lived next to movie director and his main squeeze. Point? There is none. So you get a 4/10 and what do you get that for? 1 for Margot, 1 for Brad, 1 for Leo, and 1 for Great Cinematography. The other 6 is what you would have gotten had there been an actual plot to this movie.
P.S. if you're on the fence wondering if this a good movie ask yourself this one very simple question. "If anyone else released this film would they ever be allowed near a script again?" The answer is no, no they would not. In fact if anyone else had written this script they would have been thrown out of Hollywood.