Tarantino's powerfully violent film is good, but not as great as people say in my eyes

Rating: 8/10 (8 August 2005)

Tarantino's brutally violent homage to kung-fu and samurai films is a bit overrated in my eyes. When i told my friend who is in love with this film that i enjoyed it but not to the point of worship like him, he got mad. Well I thought this film was powerful, sure was entertaining, and had very good writing and acting. Now to the bad parts, thought it was too violent, a bit redundant with battle scenes, got bored actually at times. I thought Uma Thurman did a hell of a job, very good acting, as did Madsen in his small role. I'm not a big fan of Lucy Liu, but I thought Vivica A. Fox was decent. The main reason I probably didn't like this film is because I don't like kung-fu movies for the msot part, or most karate fighting films with Jet Li/Jackie Chan, etc... However I thought Zwick's The Last Samurai was much more engaging than this, maybe thats just my style. Anyhow it was entertaining, and had some good acting and Tarantino's writing was evident. 8/10