.Unspeakably bad. Don't be fooled by the trailer.

Rating: 2/10 (22 August 2019)

Worst film of the year so far. Horrendously written, rambling confused plotlines, so many scenes that served no tangible purpose, nothing fully explored, average direction at best. 160mins of pointless scene after pointless scene, with virtually no sense of interconnectedness or relevancy at all. They're just all loosely strung together and go absolutely nowhere.
The movie in a nutshell: Pitt driving his car, with "period music" playing (how original & clever, totally unlike Goodfellas, Wolf of Wall St, Casino, American Hustle, Almost Famous, Apollo 11, Full Metal Jacket, Air America, & a plethora of other films).... just repeatedly driving.... again & again &..... again & again, & again.... then a cheesy scene of DiCaprio overacting (as usual), again & again & again.... meandering almost random scenes that literally mean nothing, add nothing, and last waaaaay too long.
Leo simply cannot act (people who say he can are either <20 or retarded); his idea of acting is screaming, crying, or acting like he's on drugs.... copy & paste of Wolf of Wall Street in other words.
5 great actors - Hirsch, Dern, Madsen, Russell, & Pacino - are all totally wasted. Luke Perry's illustrious final "performance" was the definition of a non-event. Margot Robbie's also wasted. In a lengthy scene that lasts forever, we watch her sassily talk her way into a screening of her latest film.... then follow her inside.... then watch her watching her film.... yes, read that again. THIS is "entertainment" in a Tarantino film now! Watching a girl laughing while watching another film!
Pitt is extremely bland: in another scene that lasts forever, we watch Pitt pick up an (over-acting) adolescent hitchhiker.... take her to her (Manson's) ranch.... creepy girls & some guys lingering around.... he asks to see the owner in the house, they creepily decline.... he insists.... they more menacingly decline.... he says he's going in anyway.... oh my god, what's going to happen??!!?!!!! Nothing!!! That's what! He has a chat with the guy, then leaves!!!! What the.... after allll thaaat... christ....
Then finally, after over 2 hours of NOTHING, we get 15mins of brutal bloodshed - absolute viciousness, perpetrated by our "heroes" Brad & Leo (& Brad's sweet killer pitbull) against 3 "evil hippies".
The whole film is nothing but a self-gratifying glorification of the egos of the director and main actors. And pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease don't get me started on that absolutely disgusting pathetic abhorrent utterly fictitious nonsensical scene with Bruce Lee... the director's clearly also pushing (subliminal) personal agendas with this film, i.e.: Bruce Lee and hippies suck. This isn't just Tarantino's worst film, it's one of the worst films ever made, period. Tarantino can't retire soon enough.
I had to watch No Country for Old Men & Fatal Attraction twice each, just to erase this trainwreck from my memory.