Cinema Candy With Some Alt History Revision Per Tarantino

Rating: 8/10 (15 September 2019)

OUTIH is pretty much a big love letter to early seventies Hollywood. It helps to have a total A-List cast no doubt. But it's the care in the recreation of a time and place that grabs the viewer. The story, until the Tarantino signature ending, is nothing too special other than it is quite a good palate for DiCaprio and Pitt to give us some memorable characters in a time of change in both politics and the entertainment business. What is special is the way it uses the Charles Manson gang. It's pure Quinton Tarantino alt history wrapping up things as he, and the audience, would have preferred. After the quite entertaining slow build-up it's a great pay-off elevating the movie several notches. It probably won't get the cult status of Pulp Fiction but it has lots of great period props and music, fine seventies Hollywood ambience shot with meticulous cinematography, and that quirky Tarantino pat dialogue. It's a mass audience appeal movie as such that retains a lot of the Tarantino DNA. I think it's a great ride.