Tarentino's best

Rating: 10/10 (12 October 2003)

I'm one of the few film buffs out there that thinks Tarentino was overrated. Pulp Fiction was a good movie, but I never thought it deserved the status that it has recieved. The same goes for the other movies he has written or directed. I've always seen them as just a bunch of homages smushed together with a lot of f-bombs and n-words thrown in in order to be edgy. With Kill Bill, I will now take it all back. Yes, the homages are still there, but it seems like he has transformed them into his own much more than he did with Pulp Fiction, IMO. There is little dialouge, which is in more with the tradition of HK action movies. Instead, more emphasis is placed on emotion, which leads to some very powerful performances by all (even the character of Budd, who actually only has one line of dialouge and is only briefly shown in flashbacks, yet he might be my favorite character). There's still some witty comebacks and wordplay, so QT fans won't be too disappointed, yet he no longer steeps to the overuse of profanity as he did before. As for the music, it was brilliant and I hope to get the soundtrack. It helped make the movie even that much more emotional, rather than simply being there for effect. All of this combined with non-stop action makes a movie that will have you on the edge of your seat! Oh, and the cliffhanger ending?... you WON'T see it coming.