I just watched it today at a top of the line cinema in Hong Kong. A wonderful cinema but an awful film. For the first time in 20 years, I fell asleep during a movie. The last movie that I fell asleep in was called La Luna and was truly awful. This movie except for the last 10 minutes or so bored me to tears with utter tedium. Brad pit did perform very well and takes this movie from 1 star to 2 stars, and there were a few very nice cameo touches, however the overall boredom factor was off the charts. I do agree with some of the writers that if you like 60's retro you are more likely to like this movie, however I must say that the insertion of the various characters into historical old film was done very badly in terms of the production values, and so suspension of disbelief here wasn't really possible. I really enjoyed Django unchained which I felt was quite seminal, but this was nothing like that. There were some themes there that could have been pushed well, but the parallel side stories that meant almost nothing were utter tedium at best. This film could have been a real gem if it had been tightened such that it lasted only 45 minutes in total, and the production values had been significantly improved, but as it stands the most interesting thing for me was recognising all the roads that I had driven on before and some of the retro stuff.