No Story - Just a Collection of Related Scenes

Rating: 3/10 (27 November 2019)

Quentin Tarantino is a master of writing creative dialogue and creating compelling scenes within a movie. But this movie shows, more clearly than any other of his films, his willingness to sacrifice basic plot structure in his pursuit of glitzy dialogue and stylized violence.
For the first hour or so, the on-screen spectacle captures your attention, but eventually it becomes tiresome and pointless. Movies ALWAYS become tiresome without a cohesive, well-structured plot. At the end of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood the viewer is (quite predictably) left thinking "it was kind of interesting, but what was the point?"