Overrated? Too Stylized? No. Beautiful.

Rating: 10/10 (19 November 2003)

This movie is awesome.
It's not the best movie I've ever seen, but, it's what I consider by far the coolest.
I loved Pulp Fiction and Reservoir dogs. I love Japanese animation and culture. I love violent films that hold no punches.
In this movie you get to see revenge. You get to see it really hardcore, the way it should be dramatized. You get to see throwbacks to old Bruce Lee and kung fu films. You get a beautiful tale of revenge wrapped around homage to a genre that didn't mind if it was goofy in parts... as long as the point got across:
It's not pretty when you chop off a head or a leg, but, it most certainly is...... meaningful.
The characters are awesome. Even characters whose names you don't become familiar with are excellently done.
The movie was so cool that there's really no way for me to make it make sense to you.
People say it's Overrated... these people like to think their opinion is golden and everyone else's isn't. They just want attention. Direct your attention instead to this movie.
Don't watch this movie if you are easily offended, or if you don't like action sequences. If you hated Pulp Fiction, this isn't for you.
The choreography of music and action and cut-sequences and dialogue in this movie has a "masterpiece" flavor to it. Yes, there are a couple parts that you can pick out and say "This was done poorly" in the action sequences... HOWEVER, the fact that you would do that, indicates that you should not ever return to a theater and waste your time or money. You missed all that beautiful stuff that's too hard to describe, and let yourself grunt about a silly-looking sword scene?
Awesome Cast Perfect Directing Beautiful Music Well Written Script Intelligent Violent Animation Sequence Perfect Blend