Deus Ex Tarantino

Rating: 7/10 (17 December 2019)

I saw this movie at the theater and didn't really know what to make of it so I didn't write a review. Now, I've rented it on Prime and watched it two more times. This movie doesn't really have a plot. It is mostly about Rick Dalton, an aging TV cowboy star and his anxiety over what he thinks is a fading career.
There are a number of great scenes and outstanding performances by all. The dialogue is up to Tarantino's incredibly high standard.
The first time I watched it I thought I was watching a tragedy until... 'POW! ZING! BOOM! Quentin does another rewriting of history this time outdoing his machine gunning death of Hitler.
I don't really get it. Yes, it makes for a much more pleasant conclusion of the movie and it magically snatches Dalton's career out of the ashes but what is depicted on screen IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED IN REALITY. Usually, Q's audacity leaves me shaking my head in a good way and I have to admit he had me doing it, here, as well but it is just a hollow Hollywood trick.
That is not the way it ended for Sharon Tate who is played wonderfully by Margot Robbie. And it left me feeling bad when I was thinking about the actual Sharon Tate and the horror of her, her unborn child and her friend's deaths.
Great meandering spectacle that captures the freewheeling Hollywood of the late 60s. And it feels like an indie 60s movie without the added film grain and soundtrack pops. It's just this particular rewriting of history feels like a cop out.