pop culture overkill

Rating: Null/10 (26 February 2004)

well, I hoped I would like this Tarantino Flick, but sadly,I don't.
First, stuff I kinda enjoyed:

The Shaw Brothers Logo at the beginning. Classic Stuff,makes you feel like the good ol days of good 70s kung fu-flicks.
Uma Thurman is a good actress. She`s convincing in her role,but hindered by a director who likes his kungfu/yakuza-movies a bit too much.
the anime sequence by production I.G. ist cool, and I think they should've done the entire movie like that with the principal actors as voice actors.
the Gore is ok, it really is over the top, but the "technique" using black and white footage to avoid censorship is distracting. look for the japanese version. (all color,more gore.yeah !)
Things I disliked:

as said before, the movie is littered with pop culture references from yakuza movies, animes, kungfu-flicks and whatnot. The way the script treats the bride (rape, losing unborn child etc.) is nasty,and sometimes makes you ask why. I`m asking this because everything else in this movie is so (deliberatly) exploitation-cinema-like and not serious at all.
this clash between hard-hitting sadistic violence and humorous eastern movie quotes is seriously damaging the movie. There is a (revenge)story, and a good one as well,but the way of story-telling is this time SO disjointed, its very hard to follow throughout.
might become somewhat of a cult movie later on, but this is way over the edge for me. The whole movie is like the hyperactive child called Quentin T. If you have ever witnessed an interview with him, you know what I mean.
bye (and sorry for the mangled engrish).