Fun, Exciting, and definitely a step up from Jackie Brown

Rating: 7/10 (11 October 2003)

Kill Bills one crazy ride. I know a lot of bad critics always say some crap like "a roller-coaster ride of a movie," but here that saying actually counts.
As much as I love kung-fu movies, sweet jazz soundtracks, and anime, however, I can't like this more than Pulp Fiction. Where Pulp Fiction had originality in large doses, this has blood in large doses. In fact, there's so much blood in this movie it starts to get funny. Do people really spurt out that much blood when you chop off their arm?
As for the anime side, this movie feels like one big, giant episode of Cowboy Bebop, except with a much simpler, B-movie plot. But the plot never bothers, this movie is a kung-fu flick all the way, meaning that the plot is secondary to the beautiful cinematography and excellent writing. The anime sequence alone blew my mind more than that annoying Matrix crap could ever. It seemed like a mix of Bebop-esque action sequences with Lain-style animation and a hit of Rurouni Kenshin/Samaurai X sentimentality at one very sad point.
Overall, Kill Bill is a great B-movie, up there with Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Evil Dead movies as one of the greatest B-movies ever made. I'd hate to say what so many stupid critics have said already, that this is a comeback for Tarantino. For God's sake, this is only his fourth film, and only one of them sucked!
8 out of 10.