Once Upon A Time...There was a movie maker who made a pointless film

Rating: 2/10 (9 August 2019)

Firstly may I say, please ignore the three sentence reviews on IMDB as they are obviously written by the studio and really have nothing to guide the movie goer in making an honest opinion of this film.
OK, now to my review of QT's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (OUATIH)

When I heard of this films release I was excited as I am a fan of QT work and feel that he always has something to offer the movie goer and let's face it, with all the re-boots and superhero films that have flooded the market these days he is a true master of his craft......until now!.
It's a well known fact that QT plays homage to classic movies bringing a fresh new look to them but this film perhaps should have been called 'Tarantino's Wet Dream'. So self indulgent that the audience has been ostracized unless you too known everything about retro TV programming (or claim to, to sound cool).
The film was so long without real plot and over long shots of spaghetti western scenes that had no bearing on anything and as one reviewer said 'bare foot overkill' (QT's trademark). The Sharon Tate scenes in the cinema I just did not understand why this was needed. Was this character development?, was this ..er...I just don't know.
The acting by these heavy weight actors was good - Brad Pitt especially and there were a few moments where there was some suspense (the Manson family ranch scene) but in a almost 3 hour long movie this was nowhere near enough - even the film 'Death Proof' have that underlying suspense throughout the film from Kurt Russell. The ending of this film has had some reviewers saying 'Wow' or 'Best movie ending ever'. Seriously, the girl who fell into the pool overacted so much I was glad when DiCaprio used the flame thrower - again WTF.
In all honesty I really wanted to love this film but was so disappointed by it that I will leave well alone in the future as it really was awful. I guess I missed the point but then again perhaps I didn't and it was just a bad film.