Charlie's Angels on acid: An insult to kung fu movies

Rating: 1/10 (22 October 2003)

Kill Bill is an extremely pointless movie. Bad acting, bad editing, poor character development, some fight scenes were OK but nothing compared to Zatoichi films, old Jet Li films or even Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It's empty, it's hollow and it's much worse than Jackie Brown. The stylised violence is so ridiculous that the audience laughs at it. What is this world coming to when people laugh when someone's head gets cut off?
What is the point of all the violence anyway? This movie is a sociopathic juvenile fantasy and there is no way that it came from the heart of an artist.
I've heard several comments about how Kill Bill is an homage to kung fu and anime movies, and this may have been QT's intent.
Unfortunately for him, it comes across as stereotyping and an insult to kung fu movies at best, and appropriation of voice and prejudicial at worse.
Yes, Tarantino can put together a great soundtrack and a slick, stylized pa ckage, but this movie has zero substance. If Kill Bill is the emperor, then he has no clothes, he is up there on the screen buck naked and boy is he ugly. Don't believe the hype.
And does anyone else get the feeling that vol 1 and 2 are just one movie cut in half so we can pay twice to see it?