I must have watched a different movie

Rating: 2/10 (26 July 2019)

I can't begin to tell you how disappointed I was in this movie.
It was a bunch of really great actors/acting in search of a story.
From the first 20 minutes I knew this was going to be a reimagining of the Tate/LaBianca murders, but getting to that point was laborious and circuitous.
I, like so many others, have been a Tarantino fan for decades, however this movie did not deliver.
Obviously, great acting by Pitt, DiCaprio, and crew, but this was the worst of all the annoying Tarantinoesque story telling quirks. Unnecessary voiceover, plot lines that go nowhere or never get developed, too much exposition-aspects that in his other movies we've been willing to overlook because the story was so COMPELLING.
Not only was the movie way too long (I am on board w/length if in-service of character or plot development), but this movie was essentially 2 stories ineffectually melded together.
I think he must have been smoking some of his "acid cigarettes" and got to thinking "Hey, what if Sharon Tate's next-door neighbor was some washed up actor and somehow intervened in the murder and she never died", and then that became the movie.
The story itself deserved 0 stars, but because it was great to see Brad again and because Leo never disappoints, I had to give one star for each of them (and hey, Kurt Russel is still smokin!).
Garbage.