It's Tarantino....

Rating: Null/10 (14 June 2004)

Well I watched and re-watched this movie a couple of times and first of all you have to know that basically I like it. I didn't at first. It certainly stands out from other movies made in the last oh 10 even 20 years, that sooooo many people went to see. The acting performances are great I have to say it, and I don't even like Uma Thurman :). The use of camera is interesting and seems very fresh, and the soundtrack is well......something else. And all of these things bothered me a lot when I first saw Kill Bill Vol.1. Why? Because I knew I've seen it all before somewhere. Then I read an article about the movie in a magazine and the thing I noticed the most was that it said Tarantino's inspiration was another movie, a Japanese movie made in mid 70's called Lady Snowblood. Now I knew. I've seen it a while ago and liked it a lot, but somehow it slipped my mind. But you see, it must have been much more than just inspiration, there are so many similarities (camera, story, music, details...)Tarantino must really love it or he just wanted to make his own version of it, some would even say copy I hear. I don't know and never will. Still the fact remains that Kill Bill is a well made movie and a bold one, brutal and violent, but in a way very different from the rest of todays action movies out there. The story is revenge. Pregnant Uma is gunned down on her wedding day in a church. She wakes up, from a coma, realizes there is no baby, realizes what had been done to her. Now the only thing on her mind is revenge. She will find the people responsible and kill them one by one.....and so the story progresses. Like all Tarantino movies you either like them or you don't, there really isn't any middle ground. It is the same with this one. See it and decide.