Shame

Rating: 7/10 (25 July 2019)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood isn't the movie you expect. It ponders and drags with unbearable self-indulgence, scene after scene of nonsensical interactions and feeling just out of place. I get it's suppose to be a hang-out type movie, but this is so not in the breath of that genre. It would've been much more intriguing as a melodramatic suspense story of some kind. Because as it stands, Tarantino thinks he's made gold, but in reality, Once doesn't really capture anything close to that measure.
I mean Pitt and DiCaprio have some moments of dynamic flare. But mostly it's forced and doesn't feel natural or authentic at all. I just can't picture this being apart of his filmography and accept its execution.
It poses some fascinating ideas but never really hits that high like pretty well every Quentin movie has done. For a 10 movie filmography, i feel as though he wasted one here.
And you might be wondering about the ending... well let's just say it takes all the splendor and glory the film sheds and shoves it down its own throat.
Shame.