Not Violent Enough

Rating: 6/10 (23 October 2003)

I finally went to see Kill Bill yesterday at my local googolplex, I had high hopes due to all of the press it had been getting, being called the most gory, bloody, and violent film ever made, well Just off the top of my head the original Nightmare on Elm Street beats it for blood and gore hands down.
There is a lot of blood in Kill Bill, to be sure, so much that they converted a few minutes of the film to black and white to reduce the impact. But blood is not gore, there are only like 4 or 5 gory moments in the film, the rest of it is all blood.
Like my title said it wasn't violent enough, but maybe I need to qualify that statement, it wasn't brutal enough. Hell, violence could be just people yelling if it's filmed properly. Brutality is another thing all together, violence in a film keeps people watching, brutality makes them wince and turn away.
So as far as violence goes, Reservoir Dogs was a more violent film, when you look at all the yelling Harvey Keitel does, than Kill Bill.
All in all this film rates above Jackie Brown, but way way below Reservoir Dogs, and Pulp Fiction.
6/10