Where's the plot?Where's smart lines? KILL TARANTINO! (sorry guys)

Rating: 1/10 (18 December 2003)

I just seen it yesterday. What can I say? Just WHOOPS!
Not what I expected. The movie kept me watching but I was not happy with the experience. It's just NOT Tarantino anymore. Exhausted.
Looking to the film in a very short note I can say 2 things:
* The only good thing in this movie was UMA THURMAN, who was Looking cool, nice; acting nice and fighting real. and Lucy Liu - who was also a killer beauty in her own way. * yet it looks like Quentin totally exhausted himself lopoking to this serious piece of crap. Saying that he overdone Wachowski is plain stupid. Matrix has a UNIQUE plot (except Part 3 well) and there are NO such moview at all. More about plot later. Eye Candy also much more nice in the Matrix thank in KIll Bill. And while I say that I am still a huge Tarantino lover - it's just not ol' good Tarantino!

Pardon me Tarantino lovers ( I am too one of them) but this film is an empty hole.

I don't know - I heard that many people loved this film and said it's Tarantino's best, but to me it's just not right. From ALL points of view.

1) Being a TARANTINO film. It almost lost 'TARANTISM'. There almost no humor in it, no dark humor. almost. = but people vs me may say - come one it's different genre it's an action film. It also lost twists - if we take a look of say RESERVOIR DOGS - also a bloody shotout film - it has so many angles to it so many interpretations. Here- nothing. Dialogues - same - WHERE THE HELL IS TARANTINO???? Almost EVERY line of EVERY Tarantino film can be pronaunced over and over again and kept in the memory. What here? "Kill motherf***ers???" Or what?

2) OK It's an action film, but what we see is just a lot of fights, lot of blood that's it. There is no plot. Almost. You may repeat it's a kung fu film and action film....

3)The plot is FLAT to the bone. She just out on revenge and have to kill everybody. The film , even an action film and kung fu film should have a smarter plot in order to keep the smarter audience happy. Of cource all people who just want to see aslasher film without any meaning - go for it, but it's not me. Let see - I have seen several Jet Li movies or even if we say MATRIX. Actually I should take them separately. Matrix HAS A PLOT (except maybe last)- and what a plot!!! WhoA! Most Jackie Chan movie have good plot. Van Damme movie are a bit dumb but still have a plot (I liked DOUBLE TEAM).

4) The ART of action. The whole brutal sequences are completely flat, dull, and NOT nice. If we take back to Jet Lee movies, movies like CROUNCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON, THE HERO etc - the whole samurai action looks like AN ART. Here we see stupid fight with EQUALLY stupid blood fontaining from bodies at a most stupid volume and speed. Finally if we really want to take a serious NICE kung fu/samurai action - take Akira Kurosava. What a masterpiceces. Here we watch stupid and even though it was chareographed by "MATRIX" kung fu master - all scenes look stupid to me.

5) Finally Quentin tries to get to his role of finding artistic ways of capturing this whole s***. But to me it's just doesn't make sense, and doesn't get the effect. The whole transitions of REAL CINEMA, JAPANIMATION, BW CAMERA - to me they don't make this movie better in any way.

So my score is 3/10: One point for keeping me awake sort of. One point for being an like-an-average action movie. One point for being still a Tarantino film.
Otherwise it would be 1/10.
So mach ado about nothing....