(yawn) Please finish. Too much of nothing.

Rating: 3/10 (26 October 2003)

OMG! I was incredibly bored watching this two hour cut'em'up film which is the long awaited 'fourth film' for the beloved pop-director Quentin Tarantino. I did get blown away by Pulp Fiction and equally impressed by Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown. But where as his previous films build a lot on excellent characters and their makeshift relationships (for instance), I found nothing of that in Kill Bill vol.1. What is this film about?? Apart from a (unlikely) samurai blonde and her misunderstood misguided search for revenge, this film tell nothing of who these people are or what they do for this 'mysterious' Bill. No plot what so ever! There is a scene where Uma Thurman kills some 50 sworded men which probably goes on for 40 minutes, where I desperately hoped for that bloody scene to end - just because it was so extremely tedious. I felt nothing for any of the characters in the film. A two hour show off from QT who seems to have run out of stories to tell. It is so disappointing since Jackie Brown seemed to be such a mature film in QT's collection, and hoping he would evolve more towards this direction. Off course we must take into consideration that hyped films bring strong criticism, BUT that does not forgive that Kill Bill vol.1 has no story or plot. If you fancy watching some bizarre cut'em'up-gore-samurai film, why not watching the real Japanese thing (or something). Neither does Tarantino bring us something new, nor give us a story or characterization worth watching. The only thing that can forgive QT is IF Kill Bill Vol.2 is so ingenious that it brings the two films together is some new revolutionary body of film. Lets hope so.
P.S I love Battle Royal