Quentin Tarantulino's foot fetish is back, and better than ever, baby!!!

Quenty's love letter to classic cinema was kinda everything I was told it was and expected to dislike about it: a much more mature and slower burn than the majority of his recent movies harkening back to the days of 1997's Jackie Brown and will likely be his most divisive movie even amongst his biggest fans...And yet somehow, it still really worked for me.

For starters, this is hands down the most hilarious Tarantino movie I have ever seen. His films have always had some comedic seasoning, but with this, I burst out laughing on multiple occasions.

As for the pacing, the film very much feels like two movies combined together, but the way everything is laid out, I'd consider it to be very fitting. Everything until the final sequence in the film is very meticulous and paced in the fashion of old '60s films, (which is appropriate) having every character set up, explored, and well developed, leading to a perfect catharsis at the end. Every piece of the puzzle has a perfect payoff in the final 20 minutes.

The performances were all fantastic. Leo is excellent as usual. My friends who saw it with me all noted how consistently he kept his stutter along with his accent. Margot Robbie is dead on for Sharon Tate. Brad Pitt gives my favorite performance by him since probably Burn After Reading. His performance is given ample time to shine in one scene in particular that I won't spoil, but you'll know it when you see it. Even all of the minor roles are given some opportunities to shine.

If there are any flaws, and they're very minor, it's definitely the runtime and some of the editing choices that I just happened to disagree with. The editing ranged from fantastic to really strange and I'm not sure how much of it was intentional. There are also A LOT of scenes of characters just driving and it doesn't really serve a purpose. It was at those points that I got serious Birdemic: Shock and Terror Flashbacks...

Overall, I think this has the ability to, and undoubtedly should, be highly ranked among Tarantino's best films, and I cannot wait to see this movie again, ideally in 35mm with a sold out audience next time.