OTT or Tongue in Cheek?

Rating: Null/10 (19 November 2003)

I could write so very many pages on Kill Bill and still not cover everything that is buzzing around my tiny mind. This is a film that is thought provoking, but not in the way you would expect.
I sat for hours wondering what Tarantino was on when he made this, he randomly cuts from one style of filming to another without any kind of warning. But this is not a bad thing, because somehow it all works. Everything he does with the style of the film is pulled off with ease (switching from full colour to black & white, back to colour, then to blue with silhouettes and even at one point, to animation)
Tarantino is one of very few men who would dare to try something like his, and probably the only man who could pull it off as well as he did without audiences laughing in his face.
Kill Bill also has a great 70s feel to it from everything to the soundtrack to the yellow title cards and subtitles, which, although slightly cheesy at times, still makes it a fun film to watch.
There is one thing, however, that I can't decide. There was lots and lots and lots (etc) of blood shed in this movie, which is fine: people are going to bleed if you hack their limbs off, but is it really going to shoot out over 30 metres at a rate of a pint a second? This little gripe still didn't take anything away from the fact that this is a fantastic movie, but I just cannot make my mind up whether QT was being OTT or doing it Tongue in Cheek.
Either way, I'm sure Tarantino knew what he was doing: entertaining audiences. And that is exactly what he did.
9.5/10