The Bride Wore Black (and Blue)

Rating: 3/10 (22 January 2016)

Take out all that endless sword fighting and what you have is a remake of Francois Truffaut's 1968 Hitchcock homage, "The Bride Wore Black." And just in case you didn't quite get it, Tarantino throws in composer Bernard Herrmann's whistling theme from his score for Roy Boulting's 1968 British thriller "Twisted Nerve." You have to hand it to Tarantino, he knows what he's after and how to get it. He simply steals from the best. To his credit, the direction is always smooth, inventive and sure-handed. Whether his films are good or bad, they always look great. No expense is spared and no detail is too small to fill the screen with eye-popping visuals. Now, if only he could refrain from all that blood and guts, he might make a good movie someday.