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joelawrence 's review for:
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
by Quentin Tarantino
This is Quentin Tarantino doing Elmore Leonard. The scenes are snappy and delightful and the prose is especially frank and lashy. Tarantino's use of profanity is remarkably creative especially at the end of paragraphs from the perspectives of criminals.
There being no plot wasn't a problem until the end when it turns out there really was no plot. I had the suspicion that these eclectic personalities would culminate in some barroom fight and they'd all die (because it's Tarantino) but I never expected a heartfelt ending where guys just say "well ain't that the life".
Tarantino captures a time in cinema between family-values laden westerns and R-rated action and drama movies. So, basically the actors and stunt men who are these dastardly anti-heroes are woven through Charles Manson and Roman Polanski with bits on Bruce Lee and Sharon Tate. The gears keep shifting keeping the pace quick, though sometimes the action is in flashback, and sometimes the morals are loose and the action is lurid.
There being no plot wasn't a problem until the end when it turns out there really was no plot. I had the suspicion that these eclectic personalities would culminate in some barroom fight and they'd all die (because it's Tarantino) but I never expected a heartfelt ending where guys just say "well ain't that the life".
Tarantino captures a time in cinema between family-values laden westerns and R-rated action and drama movies. So, basically the actors and stunt men who are these dastardly anti-heroes are woven through Charles Manson and Roman Polanski with bits on Bruce Lee and Sharon Tate. The gears keep shifting keeping the pace quick, though sometimes the action is in flashback, and sometimes the morals are loose and the action is lurid.