Slow burner that's worth every minute

Rating: 10/10 (26 July 2019)

I can already hear the haters complaining that it's too long, too slow, and that there's not enough action. For a movie that takes such a leisurely pace to get to where it's going, it whizzed by for me. Part buddy pic, party homage to EVERYTHING going on in 1969, and part alternative universe. The entire thing works so well! Your ability to love, or hate the movie rests on how well you connect with Pitt & DiCaprio from the start. It's not a film about Sharon Tate, or Charles Manson, or the murders that followed. The story belongs to those two leads and everything else is done around them to tie the narrative together. A truly, rewarding and very mature movie from QT.