unintentionally campy atmosphere without the humor; adolescent dialogue reminiscent of someone who's ingested too much porn, only without the sex.

Rating: 3/10 (12 February 2007)

I hope this is not considered a spoiler (I'm new to this and can not find a definition of spoiler that refers to this specifically) because I truly wish someone had told the public, namely me, that Kill Bill was only half of a movie which we would be required to pay full price for. It is a cheap trick to play on the public, only this movie wasn't good enough to bring me back to see the second half, misnamed a "sequel", plus I wasn't going to be burned again by yet another installment lacking a finish.
I found Kill Bill to have an unintentionally campy atmosphere without the humor, and sadly with adolescent dialogue reminiscent of someone who's ingested too much porn only without the sex. Pretty cheesy fare.
Amid a bevy of clownishly wooden characters trying too hard, Michael Madsen's Budd, is genuinely at ease with his real self. This actor has been continually over-looked by a Hollywood which continues to suck up to the popular kids at it's own high-schoolness.
Upon further research I realized Quentin Tarantino lacked a common denominator apparent in his earlier and better movies, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction ---- namely Roger Avary who co-wrote them. Avery's own Killing Zoe, circa 1994 is testament to his brilliance, while Tarantino's own Kill Bill is sadly telling.
As my 11 year old puts it, "it's one of those movies that you see, you go 'wow' a couple of times, you go 'that's really stupid a bunch of times' and then you quickly forget about it after seeing it."