According to the movie trivia it states Tarantino spent 5 years on the script. Five years on what? The 'script' comes across like a discarded 1st rough draft that someone's picked up and filmed, mistakenly thinking it's the finished article.

The acting is fantastic, but one can only assume these 1st class actors thought, while filming their random pointless scenes, that Tarantino would then take them and finely craft it together with sublime editing, coherence and pace. When for the most part he glued them together any old how.

I'm also shocked that Debra Tate gave her blessing to allow her sister to be filmed in such a one dimensional way. Quentin Tarantino obviously couldn't be bothered to really think about what Sharon Tate was actually like, let alone give her any lines.

Perhaps one day QT will confess this whole film is an elaborate joke at Hollywood's expense. That it was an experiment to see if it was possible to sell a 'style over substance' plot to the big movie moguls and fool them into thinking they were getting the next Citizen Kane.

My score is for the actors, the retro look & feel, some few & far between interesting scenes, and the dog.