Bang Bang

Rating: 7/10 (11 May 2004)

Quentin Tarantino probably is the only director to get away with a movie like Kill Bill. It's basically an ultra-violent one-idea movie, but done with style.
Movie starts of with a bang literally, as 'The Bride' (Uma Thurman) is almost killed on a massacre at her wedding, where the notorious 'Bill' killed 9 people, including the groom and the minister apparently. We don't know why he did it, or who 'The Bride' really is, we have to just go along with it.
The Bride wakes up after a coma and decides to kill Bill and his (female) helpers. The biggest part of the movie concentrates on The Bride wanting to kill O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), who is introduced in a great way into the film, with a short (extremely violent) anime. Great stuff.
Rest of the movie mainly consists of The Bride slicing and chopping everybody that comes in her way. Death count must be about equal to 'Commando' and those kinds of movies. There isn't a real story in it, we just have to wait for part 2 for that I suppose. Hell, it even has a cliffhanger you would only see on Days Of Our Lives and comparable soap operas.
In short: stylish, violent, fragmentaric, good stuff, but one would expect more. 7/10.