Overrated and not worth your time

Rating: 4/10 (23 January 2020)

The first 2 hours of this film are sluggish and so slowly paced that getting through each scene was a pain. Brad Pitt does very well with Leo taking his characters inability to act a bit too close to the bone. Margot Robbie is fine as an aesthetic alongside the main cast. Additionally seeing other actors like Al Pacino is always nice.
The final 15 minutes when the twist occurs is amazingly stupid, chaotic and fun. The only redeeming part of this film.
The main gripe I have with this film is why we focused quite a large amount of time on Sharon Tate. If we wanted a twist for the sake of subverting audience expectations which has nothing to do with Sharon Tate, why focus on her so much? The reason was to give the audience a red herring just so we could have our expectations subverted. But in this case, are we supposed to know the true details of the story or not? What parts of this story are true and false? And if this is not a true story, then we need to be given more information about the characters in the film otherwise it is nonsensical crap.
What were the Manson cult people doing? Was their ONLY motive to go and attempt to kill the hollywood celebrities because they "saw them on TV murder so we gotta do that too yo" ??
This film has a very thin plot which is held together by great cinematography, acting and (somewhat) amazing directing. If you like all the throwbacks to the "Golden age of Hollywood" then sit back and enjoy this meandering mess of madness because you are the target audience.