Not a professional reviewer, I’d like to rant from time to time about a movie I just watched.
I was very very eager when I saw the poster for both Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio together, directed and produced by the one and only Quentin Tarantino. No one should miss that, right? So when my husband and I got a chance, we dove right in.
The move is around 2 hours and 30 minutes long, and I thought, this is going to be a hell of TinTin’s ride.
I’m not gonna give away the story to avoid spoilers if you wanna see it, but I’ll go ahead and talk about some points of what makes or breaks the movie.
The acting of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio is undeniably amazing, they both deliver excellent performance, especially DiCaprio; I think it’s his best performance to date. However, there’s minor character development throughout the movie – we don’t see them mature. There are some unexplained scenes of Cliff’s (Pitt) house, vs Rick’s (Dicaprio) that I thought will serve a purpose later, but we all know how Tintin loves to mess with us.
Margot Robbie doesn’t say a full sentence throughout the entire movie, she’s just there to smile and look pretty. Which – in my humble opinion – is an awful interpretation of Sharon Tate, which ridiculed her death *murder* and reduced her from a gorgeous actress of the sixties, to a complete airhead.
Robbie on the left, Tate on the right
If you’re an avid reader, Tintin briefly mentions Charles Manson and his cult *who did murder Tate and a few others* but the connection is barely there in the movie that you can’t make it until a few hours after that – and I think it was a really good chance to put a little background on what happened that night. But Tintin makes what he wants, I guess.
The movie was set in the 1960s; the styling, props, dialogue, colour schemes and housing decor gave all a beautiful sense of old school Hollywood. Even the hippies – however, I don’t feel they were fairly portrayed, but showing them as chaotic presence. Cinematography was incredible, and although I did enjoy the 60s vibe I felt that Tintin was showing off how much good knowledge of old Hollywood he had.
Unfortunately, the movie gets a bit boring in the middle, and different stories and characters are being thrown in for the shock factor, but with no purpose. So if you do go to the washroom and skip a few minutes in the first 2 hours, you’re fine. You didn’t miss anything.
Until the last 45 minutes. Cliff (Brad Pitt) gets high on acid (brilliant) and classic Tarantino with all his gory, disgusting bloody scenes and adrenaline comes rushing in. The movie goes from 0 to 500 quickly that you don’t even realize what’s going on and I thought “Yes! Here’s Tintin that we know” just when I get cozy watching the very fast pace insane scene, the movie ends.
Ultimate disappointment.
If you really want to enjoy a classic Tarantino movie, start after an hour in, so you don’t waste the whole three hours without getting the chance to pee.
Nj.Bakr 