A Decent Cartoon

Rating: 7/10 (14 October 2003)

I really wanted to like Kill Bill. I thought (and still think) Pulp Fiction was a masterpiece of creativity that was still realistic.

Kill Bill is a masterpiece of creativity, but is a cartoon. I'm sure Tarantino meant it to be so (at least I hope he did!). But it just fell in love with itself a bit too much.
Especially the massacre in the restaurant, which had no particular point to make after the fourth amputation. Monty Python did it right -- four amputations in one scene is the max. Anything more is wasting my time.

I'm just guessing that Kill Bill would've made a good movie, but expanded, extended and then carved into two "volumes", it just gets a bit too narcissistic.