History Re-written

Rating: 7/10 (6 January 2020)

There is much to love about Tarantino's sprawling 60s tribute, the style, the flourishes, the homages and the wonderful spiky humour.It's confidence in itself propels it along and despite its lapses in what one may consider plot devices and storytelling, any more criticism aimed at it would have to be considered nit picking by any half formed cineophile.While the chaotic finale transfers it's allegiance to wish fulfillment from the Nazi enclave to the infected hippies of the era and once again registers familiar shades from a previous work, the film however is so immensely watchable that it's hard to deny the director his preferred prognosis of events.The performers are all a joy to behold and identification is solid throughout for denizens of the era, resulting in that rare example of filmmaking whereby at the end, one feels and recognises the compulsion of wanting to visit it one again in the short term.