Ambitious but overreaching, perhaps his storytelling got a wind out of him and went crazy with indulgence after a tightly focused Boogie Nights. There’s too many characters and story threads, and interconnection of their fates works when all the gears are working simultaneously. I wanted the entire movie to be about Tom Cruise and his dad, and less about C Reilly and Melora Walters. That’s just me, never count one out for ambition and Paul has it in spades. Tarantino could never make a movie like this.