Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot
Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret
Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Julia Butters, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce
Dern, Mike Moh, Luke Perry, Damian Lewis, Al Pacino
Rating: 10 out of 10, This is a very
long, heartfelt tribute to the late 1960s and Hollywood. Tarantino excels at
creating memorable characters and does so again with Pitt and Decaprio. Pitt,
as Decaprio’s stunt man, steals the movie and plays the everyman part saying
what most of us are thinking when confronted by the perpetual self-importance
Hollywood likes to immerse itself in. This is a very long movie but I truly
enjoyed the trip back to my earlier days and the inevitable, what were we
thinking? expositions. Decaprio, a has-been TV actor, happens to be live next
door to Sharon Tate in 1969 and everything that means. Pitt runs across the
denizens of the Spann Ranch in his travels which made for some really eerie
scenes. Tarantino has always felt free to re-write history the way it should
have happened and that makes for a truly sizzling climax. I haven’t always been
a huge Brad Pitt fan but he is perfect in this part and well worth the very
long wait to get to the fun stuff.
MVP: Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth, stunt
man extraordinaire
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