an ok movie, but it doesn't deserve the high praisal it gets

Rating: 5/10 (23 April 2004)

After watching Kill Bill 1, I though of giving it a rating of 6 (out of 10) here, but after reading some user comments here, I decided to give it 5. Originally I wouldn't have made a comment about it, but many things prompted me to. I won't give a summary of the movie, as that has been done plenty enough times here.
Anyhow, I am not big against the film, as my rating shows, I find it quite an average movie, and therefore I do not understand the comments often stated, that either you love the movie or you hate it. I am not a person sniffing at the high amount of violence within the movie, I just don't the point in that. The problem with it is, that it all seems to cover for an extremely weak plot, a woman seeking revenge and consequently kills each of the persons she wishes revenge for. This is filled out with non-exiting combats, and no matter how many thousands of people the woman fights at once, she always wins, so the movie is also predictable.
A thing I also don't understand, is how high people praise that Tarantino doesn't let the movie go chronically, and claims this to be a sign that this is an highly intellectual movie. Apparently no one knows, that this has been done before. I do like the jumping back and forward in the history, and the small little direction details, but this alone can't a movie great.
I divide the movie into two parts, the first I found was rather good, this was the part until after the japanese anime part (actually I think that the anime was the peak of the movie), all that came after this was nothing special. Also I don't understand why the movie was seperated into two parts, it seems just like an attempt to create more fuzz and interest about the movie. People argue, that the movie shouldn't continue after the massive battle in Japan. But as I don't see it as a 'peak' but merely a way to fill out the 1½ hour, this argument doesn't work. Furthermore there was many things that didn't make sense and made the movie made up, like when the bride wakes up of the coma, she knows that it has been four years. How on earth can she know that exactly four years passed, when she just woke up of the coma??? And towards the end, when Sofie goes to the toilet, why does she go via the stairs on her left, which means she had to pass all the dancing people and walk far more, than if she took the stairs on her right? Finally, then Tarantino doesn't make enough out of the 'bad' guys (and girls), they seem like puppets and not real humans. I know many other directors doesn't do that either, but I had expected more from Tarantino.
Regarding all the extaggerrated blood-shed, then I did find it quite amusing. But the predictability of the fights, and the super-human powers that bride apparently must have, made the fighting scenes as ridiculous as the old fight movies it tried to ridiculate.
Pulp Fiction was a great movie, this is mediocore, all this said, then I was dissapointed when it ended so soon, and I will probably watch the sequel, but I don't have high expectations.