Here's the Problem

Rating: 5/10 (10 October 2003)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOIERS*** `Kill Bill Vol. 1' is a good movie that could have been a great movie. Scratch that. It could have been a f*cking unbelievably amazing movie. The problem with this film is simple: too much blood. Too much blood spray (and I mean spraying like a hose), too many severed limbs and too many kills. The film opens with The Bride (Uma Thurman) killing an important character in an intricate knife fight, by the end of that fight that kill really meant something because she worked hard for that kill. However, the closing scene of the film is centered on an immense and implausible sword fight in which The Bride kills about a hundred goons with swords in just a few seconds more than it would take Rambo to do the same with a machine gun. When the scene climaxes with The Bride in a sword dual to the death with another important character it's boring; we have been so convinced that she is invincible that when the fight concludes it is no surprise she won the villain's death is not all that impressive. When a character can kill people like she does housework, watching her kill is like watching her do housework. There were a few other little things that could have been neater, but they're not worth mentioning. Over all it was all right and I am going to see `Kill Bill Vol. 2' when it comes out. 6/10.