An insult to Sergio leone

Rating: 1/10 (14 August 2019)

I really wanted to enjoy this despite never liking any QT films in the past , I wanted to give it a chance - nearly three hours later I feel robbed , robbed of my time , my money ( although it didn't cost the extortionate £12.75 as I have an unlimited card ) and my intellect.
From start to finish the film plus trailers lasted 3 hours - 2 hours of tedium sitting around 4/10 and then in the finale it drops to 1/10 .
If you're going to add historical characters and occurrences then at least have the dignity to stick to them .
The final scenes were far too violent and and then took on the genre of a zombie movie which seemed to get the audience laughing and I'm not sure if that was the intention .
Margot Robbie was wasted as Sharon Tate , she never really had a chance to act - Leonardo acted his heart out as always and Brad's contribution was eerie . But what let this down was the script . It was plotless and it when it finally got the the final scene it was ruined by deviating so far from reality .
There were some impressive factors however but the bad bits overwhelmed the good parts . The recreation of the 1960s was impressive although seeing Pan Am 747's flying in 1969 was either a purposeful error or all part of the Hollywood 'fairytale' playing with history - since it didn't enter service till 1970.
Overall it a poor movie and plays little homage the the brilliant Once upon a time in the west . It's undeserving of the title .
This is certainly not a classic , ironically this is the first QT film without Weinstein backing but it's still taken over $100m in its opening weekend making it one of the most successful films of 2019 so far - it had plenty of 10/10 reviews so the QT fans are happy so if you like Reservoir dogs , Pulp fiction and the like you'll probably like this too . I didn't on both counts .
Pad.A 1/10