Should've cut 2 parts down to one 2-hour movie

Rating: 4/10 (5 July 2007)

I would say this movie was the "Matrix Reloaded" of this year, except that Reloaded WAS this year. Tarantino's suffered from all the same problems. Almost all scenes, fighting or dialogue, went on about twice as long as they needed to, several scenes just shattered the realm of even our most suspended disbelief, and finally this movie just thought it was way better and cooler than it really was. It had such potential, and did have some really good ideas and even some good scenes, but could have easily been only one hour long, so this whole 2-part BS could've been one film. Maybe with both parts together (and abbreviated) it could add up to one good film's worth.
Worst of all: At least the Matrix decided to use the separate Animatrix DVD to tell superfluous unnecessary back stories and side plots. No, Kill Bill decides to give us the wholly pointless origin of one of its supporting characters, and does it with a 10-15 minute segment, which would be bad enough, ...but they also decided, for no reason, to do it in anime...and not very good anime at that. Last complaint: the music. Wow, was that annoying.