Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019)

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  d_riptide

  10 / 10

  If I was your regular twice a month movie-goer who cared more about entertainment and less about quality control, I wouldn’t be able to appreciate “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” the way I do right now. A Quentin Tarantino flick centered around New Hollywood with a Martin Scorsese biopic style setup doesn’t feel like much at first but underneath the surface, it follows an unbelievably riveting personal rise and fall story coupled with moments that matter, characters that were memorable, visions that were exploited thanks to stellar cinematography and editing, easter eggs and subtleties that helped expand this world of a glorious past we may or may not have experienced and a script with such magnetic, gripping, well crafted thought and weight to its originality and class that this alternate fairytale evolves itself into the closest thing to Grand Theft Auto meets Inherent Vice that we could get. It really was that majestic to me. Just like Mike Moh’s Bruce Lee, the film felt impeccable.
  
  Now I understand why he calls this film his most personal one yet as well as his love letter to L.A: This was the era of Hollywood that helped define him, that helped turn him into one of the most unconventional yet successfully name’s in the industry but even he knows time is against him. The film is deeply personal about the topic of friendship and the hierarchy centered around scratching and clawing to stay alive in a constantly evolving industry that subverts innocence in exchange for status. How, in order to attain it, we gotta go to a dark place. True innocence against human nature at its worst.....once again.
  
  If I were to nitpick and dissect a flaw, it’d have to be that over-extensive runtime. But aside from that, Tarantino.....if this is your last film, then what a legacy you’ve left behind, good sir.

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