Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie
Rated MA
Score 5/6

A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood’s Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.

I meant to go and see this in the cinema but never actually got around to actually going to the friendly neighbourhood cinema and ultimately ended up putting off watching this for about 8 months, so I suppose we can chalk this up to I get around to it eventually.

Watching a Tarantino movie is always good fun I just love the man’s attention to detail and this really looked like a beautifully shot movie. A little bit of alternative history can be a good thing it can even take a movie in a direction that you thought it wasn’t going to go. I also thought that the use of the footage from the Great Escape with DiCaprio as Rick Dalton filling substituted for Steve McQueen was a brilliant piece of world building, though it should be noted seeing Rick Dalton as Hilts instead of McQueen didn’t look quite right. I wouldn’t say that is an indictment on the level of the special effects, but it has more to do with the number of times I have seen The Great Escape.
I’m assuming a lot of you know about Tarantino’s thing about bare female feet, of the times he showed bare female on screen the scene with Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate in the cinema caused me to chuckle purely because of who unexpected it was.
Before going watching this I was aware that there was certain degree of controversy surrounding the movie regarding the portrayal of Bruce Lee as being a very arrogant man. In the movie Lee was portrayed as being arrogant and I thought that the scene featuring Bruce Lee portrayed by Mike Moh was very entertaining it should be noted that the scene in question a biased memory from the perspective of a character who didn’t like Lee.
Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio had great onscreen chemistry, but I loved Julia Butters’ performance as Trudi Fraser and thought that the use of Kurt Russell as the narrator was an interesting touch.