Doesn't live up to the hype.

Rating: 6/10 (6 February 2003)

*Slight SPOILERS*
I actually downloaded this movie because I had it in semi-high expectations. It was nominated for Best Picture, had all these great reviews, and was directed by Martin Scorsese (<---spelling?). I watched it and it all flew out the window.
I guess it wasn't horrible. There was a certain amount of symbolism, and I rated it a 6, but still, the depth wasn't there and I found it to be a bad excuse for gratuetous sex, profanity, violence, and GORE. I was amazed at how bloody it was. There's a point in which you need to call it quits with the fake blood and mangled body parts and instead spend money on something worth while. (Like a better script for one thing.)
Am I the only one who felt cheated by the ending? With the huge battle at the beginning, you were expecting one of an equal, if not larger scale. It just seemed to easy for Amsterdam to finally kill Bill.

The acting was okay, although Leonardo DiCaprio was in desperate need of a better dialect coach because his accent was just the pits. Daniel Day-Lewis was excellant, but there was something about him that didn't fit right...not sure what it was, but just 'something'...
Bottom line: go see this film if you wanna see blood, profanity, mindless violence and sex, and a horrible excuse for an ending (although the NY skyline views at the very end were quite good...I liked how they kept the Twin Towers in instead of deleting them after 9/11).