Amazing movie with once again great writing and directing from Quentin Tarantino and great acting. Brad Pitt a stunt double Cliff Booth easily steals the show delivering the most laughs. The same thing goes for Leonardo DiCaprio being also great as washed-out Hollywood actor Rick Dalton who is slowly losing his place in Hollywood. All of the actings is great with other good performances from Al Pacino and Dakota Fanning.
It's 1969 during the late stages of Rick Dalton's acting career who acted in an old canceled tv western Bounty Law with his stunt double Cliff Booth. During this time Rick Dalton is starting to feel worried he is no longer a relevant actor in Hollywood. We follow him on his journey with his stunt double Cliff Booth to try to become relevant again. The film also very loosely takes place during the Manson family murders and we see a few of his cult followers roaming around Los Angles with them living on an old ranch.
Another thing the movie does right is the set design and nice cinematography by Robert Richardson. It actually feels and looks like 60s Los Angeles with old fashioned drive-in theaters and the music choices. On top of having cool movie and tv references of the 60s decade in the movie. Tarantino's writing is as always really good and creative in the use of foreshadowing. Showing us as the audience something like an object then having it come up again way later in the film. With a good purpose in the movie of subtlety showing us it. However, the story of the movie is overall a little weak at times. In the sense that not much happens in the movie during the second act its main characters sitting around talking which is both a strength and weakness of the film due to Tarantino's writing. Another issue is the character of Sharon Tate well being acted good by Margot Robbie she doesn't really do much in the film until the third act. If you would have left her character out of the movie it really wouldn't impact the film much at all. Overall Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a great movie with amazing acting. This movie shows us that Tarantino is still is a brilliant writer and director still capable of making great memorable movies. Even if this is one of his weaker films storywise.
It's 1969 during the late stages of Rick Dalton's acting career who acted in an old canceled tv western Bounty Law with his stunt double Cliff Booth. During this time Rick Dalton is starting to feel worried he is no longer a relevant actor in Hollywood. We follow him on his journey with his stunt double Cliff Booth to try to become relevant again. The film also very loosely takes place during the Manson family murders and we see a few of his cult followers roaming around Los Angles with them living on an old ranch.
Another thing the movie does right is the set design and nice cinematography by Robert Richardson. It actually feels and looks like 60s Los Angeles with old fashioned drive-in theaters and the music choices. On top of having cool movie and tv references of the 60s decade in the movie. Tarantino's writing is as always really good and creative in the use of foreshadowing. Showing us as the audience something like an object then having it come up again way later in the film. With a good purpose in the movie of subtlety showing us it. However, the story of the movie is overall a little weak at times. In the sense that not much happens in the movie during the second act its main characters sitting around talking which is both a strength and weakness of the film due to Tarantino's writing. Another issue is the character of Sharon Tate well being acted good by Margot Robbie she doesn't really do much in the film until the third act. If you would have left her character out of the movie it really wouldn't impact the film much at all. Overall Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a great movie with amazing acting. This movie shows us that Tarantino is still is a brilliant writer and director still capable of making great memorable movies. Even if this is one of his weaker films storywise.