Ultra violent revenge film

Rating: Null/10 (24 September 2005)

I'm really going against the grain here since so many people really seem to like this movie and think it's great. I honestly don't understand why. It's episodic with each episode showing the revenge of assassin Uma Thurman over one of the people responsible for shooting her in the head on her wedding day. This scene is quite sadistic and is the first of the film so you know what you are getting into from right off. Although the violence and blood is supposed to be "comic book" I didn't find it that way and thought it was very excessive, and to what point. There are shootings, stabbings, decapitations, arms lopped off, limbs and necks gushing blood like fountains. I suppose director Tarentino thinks it's somehow funny. However, there is a scene in which Viveca A. Fox is murdered in front of her young daughter; I was dumbfounded as to how anyone could think that was not offensive. I don't understand the point of the film except that the point was to show as much violence as possible. There is no storyline other than the revenge, so in this way it's like a horror movie where the only point is to kill teenagers in increasingly gruesome ways. To me, that is what Kill Bill is very much like; just another slasher film but using martial arts. I was reminded of the film Dead Alive which I didn't like either. Slasher horror films are okay but you don't hear anyone praising them like you do this film. Maybe I'm just a lug head for not getting what all the fuss is about over this film.