"Kill Bill" is sensless gore

Rating: 1/10 (10 October 2003)

Calvin: Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? It's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense.
Hobbes, walking away: I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.
Calvin, now alone: I can't tell if that's funny or really scary.
*There will be spoilers in here* Many audience members at the sneak preview screening of "Kill Bill vol.1" felt compelled to laugh a the absurd senselessness of this film. The movie seems to play as a spoof and I wished it was at times so that I could laugh along with the grotesque display of constant dismemberments, beheadings and occasional disembowelments I was watching. However there is little comical about this film. It decides to focus on things such as raping women in comas, a pre-teen girl killing a man while she's having sex with him, a little girl being dowsed in her mother's blood (and another little girl watching her mother die in a knife fight) as well as the good old 'sword chopping off the top of a head to expose brain' shot. At least Tarantino didn't use the slowly falling apart body/head cliché. A memorable laugh getter from the audience is from a women writhing in pain on the floor after her arm is severed. She is seen in the background of numerous shots in a pool of her blood, much like Mr. Orange in `Reservoir Dogs'. Nobody laughs at Mr. Orange's predicament because you feel for the character and the situation he's in, however the woman in `Kill Bill' got an awkward chuckle from the audience do to the nonsense that was being experienced.
The movie is chocked full of horrific images that have no purpose but to move the numbingly simplistic plot towards the next gory visual explosion. And all without the witty dialogue that Tarantino's other films have possessed.
I won't be recommending this film to anyone, and neither are the other five people I went to see it with.