As much as a masterpiece as Pulp Fiction

Rating: 10/10 (10 October 2003)

While watching the trailers for the movie on TV, I wondered, 'how good could a revenge movie be?'. But from the moment it started, Tarantino set the tone of humor, intensity, fierceness and over-the-topness, marvellously edited, such that it drew you in, but not so far in that you would take it all that seriously. It seemed to be telling the audience, aren't these martial arts films so hokey, but don't you love the ass-kicking anyway? The saving grace of the movie is that while it is telling the story of fierce revenge, it continually makes fun of itself, so that you are laughing with the movie, not at it. Uma Thurman looked radiant at time, Lucy Liu once again played the perfect cold hearted bitch - did her scream at the Yakuza gathering remind you of Amanda Plummer's hysteria in the final restaurant scene in Pulp Fiction?
But a warning, this is not only a high body count, but a high severed limb count, and if you at all squeamish at bloodletting, go see a chickflick!