Tarantino's best film since Reservoir Dogs

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2004)

If you've seen films like Gauyat sandiu haplui (Saviour of the Soul, 1992), Gonin (1995), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Zhan shen chuan shuo (Moon Warriors, 1993) and mix this with Quentin's (to me) best film, Reservoir Dogs (1992), then you still only have half of what to expect from this first volume of Kill Bill.
With Reservoir Dogs Tarantino proved that there is possible to create a better version of a movie (he re-worked Long hu feng yun, City on Fire, from 1987). With Kill Bill he proves to the world that he actually can get inspired from a wide source of media, and create something new and original.
Where Ying xiong (Hero, 2002) and Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000) found a wider western audience than most other Asian films, these two movies are pathetic in comparison to what came out of Hong Kong, China and Japan during the 90's, but these two are also by far boring if seen together with Kill Bill.
But why compare anyway? Kill Bill stands on its own, and there is probably no other film like it. It has violent scenes that have a humour not seen since RoboCop (1987) and it also has really neat performances from severel actresses and actors I didn't even believe were still alive.
I never liked Uma Thurman or Pulp Fiction (1994), but after watching Kill Bill volume 1., I can say that I won't say a bad word about Uma ever again. She is perfect.
As can be said by most people in this high quality sword slashing flick.
Kill Bill has only one thing wrong. It's divided into two films, volume one and volume two. I hate that. I wanted to see these two films together, but now I have to wait. That is not nice of Miramax, but hey, they probably want us to double their money, right? I can't see any other reason.
Kill Bill vol 1 is a perfect 10. Quentin Tarantino must be proud. I haven't seen him make a good film since 1992, so I'm happy. I think Tarantino got Kill Bill vol 1 to look exactly as his vision.
Now, I just hope that vol 2 is equally good.
10 out of 10.