Tarantino's lost it

Rating: 3/10 (8 November 2003)

"Kill Bill" is simply a bad movie, plain and simple. There's very little substance to the plot, no meaningful character development, and a vast overabundance of senseless violence. The most unfortunate aspect of Kill Bill is that the trademark funkiness that has made Tarantino a genre unto himself is almost entirely displaced by endless scenes of sword-swinging, limb-amputating gore. In fact, viewers will probably find the violence more boring than objectionable, there's so much of it.
Contrary to the claims of die-hard Tarantino fans, there's nothing to "get" about Kill Bill. There's no deep meaning discenible only to martial-arts cinema philosophers, and there's no such-and-such-esque substance that gives this film any secret, subtle brilliance. This is simply Tarantino's monument to his own dark obsessions, and not much more.