Somewhere between amazing and terrible.

Rating: 7/10 (4 June 2020)

It's hard to get my thoughts together about this film; It's interesting in the way that it plays with the idea of what a film and plot can be. Many people are writing that it's just a senseless collection of vaguely related scenes and characters.... But that is undoubtedly the point. Only a expercenied and well loved director would be allowed to make a movie like this and I'm glad such experiements do occasionally get to see the light of day.
But can a film still be entertaining and relatable without a coherent plot? Once Upon a Time manages to do this to some extent but I'd be lying if I said I was glued to the screen the whole way through. I'm giving the film 7 stars, mostly for it's refreshing unorthodoxy (even for an already unorthodox director). I see very few mixed reviews; almost all are either either extremely positive or negative. It seems that the people who are giving it overwhelmingly positive reviews are being a bit disingenuous and overlooking the film's extremely slow pacing and non-existent plot, while those that are trashing it are missing the point entirely.
Anyways, just my two cents... Definitely a movie that makes you want to write a review!