About as good as "From Dusk Till Dawn"

Rating: 5/10 (27 October 2003)

Since Pulp Fiction, it seems film making is more important to Quentin Tarantino rather than telling a good story. I wanted to check out this movie because I'm a big fan of Resevoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction and I think Quentin is a really good film maker. From the very start, you see that Quentin wants to be different, and see what he could get a way with in his quirky credits sequence, which I appreciated. Everything was good until about half way through the movie when it seemed Quentin became obsessed with showing blood spraying out of people's bodies a la Japanese anime. He actually includes about 15 minutes of anime, which IMO is artsy-fartsy animation invented only to depict sex and violence. I've never understood anime (maybe I'm in the minority judging by the ratings of this movie) but he had a good film going until the bloodfest started in that cartoon. I felt the same about Dusk till Dawn. Absolutely no plot in that movie. Started off looking like it had one, but then it was just another horror movie. I guess I should have expected more blood than story in Kill Bill, but he's not appealing to the masses with this one. 5/10