Once upon a time in hollywood
*ing: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, Al Pacino
Rated: 7/10
The big cast line-up, the Quinton Tarantino indulgence in a subject which he loves to splash, the subject being Hollywood of the late 60s, and the delightfully vague scheme of things that pan out on the mountainous slide of Boulevard Hollywood away from Hollywood makes this movie a dishy one.
Not just the rakish cowboy in Leornardo di Caprio but the rakish looks of his chauffeur-buddy-stuntman Brad Pitt make for a compelling story. Yes, you may question the hippie violence as a biased viewpoint, playing to the hilt on a high platform, but it is a typical Tarantino finish that plaques the film with many groovy moments, talking both of the rigours of being an actor on the slide, living on borrowed screen time and the plushness of being the next door neighbour of someone as big as Roman Polanski, with or woithout his dreams-in-the-eyes wife, with blond hair. Some may find the story of Rick Dalton (Leo), a star-turned-villain-turned-out-of-work-pushed-to Italian westerns, as gloomy but Tarantino ensures that there is much more mood in the film that any other could have managed.