Tarantino jumps the shark

Rating: 1/10 (3 October 2009)

I loved Pulp Fiction, enjoyed Reservoir Dogs and had heard good things about Kill Bill, so was expecting something outstanding. It turned into the biggest disappointment of any movie that I have ever seen. Several times in the last hour I thought that Tarantino could not possibly let things get any worse, and each time I was wrong.
This movie couldn't decide what it wanted to be. There were some serious parts, some facetious ones and some fantasy ones, which just did not work. Any one style would have, but three did not. It was, at times, samurai, gangster and drama movie, and again, any one of the three would have been fine - but only one.
The constant change of styles was bad enough, but even many individual scenes were poorly done, independently of anything else. In combination, they meant that the movie, which actually started out moderately well, deteriorated into a series of scenes that worked badly on their own and terribly in combination.
I know that everyone loves this film. I know that both critics and the public rate it highly. I know that I'm analysing it in a lot of depth, rather than just sitting back and enjoying it, as everyone else does. But how anyone can relax, sit back and enjoy it with so much going wrong, I will never know.