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Rating: Null/10 (29 October 2003)

QT is a director that is loved for not being mainstream. Unfortunately by the over generous reviews Kill Bill has received it seems praising anything with QT's name on it is now mainstream.
I didn't read any reviews before seeing the movie. I just heard that it was really good. Instead I sat through a very confused movie. QT's usual scene shuffling in this movie serves no purpose. Its not ground breaking anymore its tired. The dialog is very lacking in comparison to his other films.
The movie is your usual QT style movie for the first 1/3 and then all of a sudden it goes anime. I think its too sharp a change in style for the same movie. It just doesn't flow very well especially with the excess of blood. I found myself thinking, "Please turn off the blood jets or at least make them shorter". I have the stomach for gore. In fact disturbingly enough I like it but this wasn't gory, it was stupid. I can't appreciate "directing vision" that is nothing more than, "look its blood! Don't you think its gross?". Way too much of it. Could have done a lot less and had more impact.
With Tarantino's movies like RDogs there is an excess of cussing. Every over word is the f-word. After a while it becomes obvious that its an attempt at shock value and nothing more. But after a few minutes of it you are numb to it. Kill Bill suffers the same fate but only with cheesy blood spray.
I give it a 6.5 out of 10. Over rated.