Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

This afternoon I went to the Balmoral Cinema to see the movie Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. It's 1969 Hollywood with TV actor Rick Dalton(Leonardo DeCaprio) is concerned that his career might be over which his agent Marvin Schwartz (Al Pacino) offers him to do Spaghetti Western Movies but doesn't do it while his friend and stunt double Cliff Booth(Brad Pitt) who drinks and lives in an trailer with his dog Brandy drives Rick around due to him having too many DUI's and Cliff hasn't worked in movies since the death of his wife. Meanwhile actress Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) with her husband Roman Polanski (Rafal Zawierucha) moves in Cielo Drive next to Rick and they would become neighbours but not yet. Rick meanwhile lands an role as a villain for the pilot of a TV show called Lancer and Cliff picks up an hippie which he drops her at Spahn Ranch where an group of Hippies which would be the Manson Family are occupying as well as Cliff being suspicious and it gets interesting. It is FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with top and FANTASTIC acting by Leonardo DeCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Kurt Russell, Al Pacino, Nicholas Hammond, Luke Perry in his final movie appearance, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, Margaret Qualley, Emile Hirsch and others. It's directed by Quinton Tarantino who wrote the screenplay and produced it with Shannon McIntosh and David Heyman and Kurt Russell did the narrating. It's reminder of how times were in Hollywood comparing to what it is now and how lives were to change in that period and I think Margot Robbie does an FANTASTIC performance as Sharon Tate which I have to say it is one of her best performances along with her role as Tonya Harding as I Tonya as well as her role in Mary Queen Of Scots as Queen Elizabeth I and Tarantino does an FANTASTIC job on this film which it's doing very well. I give it 4 and an half stars which it's in the cinemas now so do yourselves an favour and SEE IT.

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