Gogo!

Rating: 8/10 (26 September 2019)

The presence of the daughter of Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox) and the backstory of O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) shows that revenge begets revenge begets revenge, and I loved that. I also loved Chiaki Kuriyama in the role of the sadistic teenage schoolgirl Gogo Yubari; she practically steals the movie, no offense to Uma Thurman. Otherwise the recipe for this Tarantino cocktail includes a blend of many things, all of which undoubtedly tickle the director personally - samurai, anime, and martial arts films, along with a generous amount of campy American cultural references, lots of creative dismemberment and blood spray, and some foot shots besides. I think it was a mistake to cut the film into two parts, but the first volume entertains on its own.