A flick that's good at being bad...

Rating: Null/10 (9 October 2003)

I saw "Kill Bill" with two of the biggest film critics in America two weeks before it will come out. Sitting alone in a small 20 person theater and watching Tarintino's triumphant comeback was thrilling, to say the least. Watching it a second time at a 400+ person promo-screening, two days before it's national release was even better. I knew every time when the blood-crazed audience was going to go nuts. I knew which scenes there was going to be an explosion of applause. And I know that the rest of the world is going to like this movie... Now, I said 'like', not love.
There is nothing not to like. Tarintino's vision of an hommage to 70's 'B' kung-fu chop-sockey flicks is nothing short of genius. But you must understand: 'B' movies are not good. This movie is not good! But that's what makes it great, if that makes any sense. It's a typical revenge-driven "You-killed-everyone-I-love,-now-I-will-kill-you" plot; Seen it a million times on any TNT or TNN made for TV movie. However, there is so much trademark Tarintino-ian style and careful crafting of this bad 'B' movie, that it turns out wonderfully. From the out-dated flash-zoom pans, to the cheesy sound effects, to the laughable dialogue, make no doubts about it, this is the best-worst movie of the year. And what a cliff-hanger at the end!!!! I've seen the movie twice before it was released, and now I'll probably pay two more times to see it in the theaters again!
And yes, Uma is hot.