Charlie's Angels was bad but fun, Kill Bill is bad and painful.

Rating: 3/10 (13 October 2003)

Don't kill me, while watching this I thought of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. They are quite similar but reversed, and I'm not just saying this because they both have Lucy Lui. They both have intentionally bad scripts, beautiful women who report to a man, three who are still with him, and one rebel, no sense of reality, and both are bad. There are two main differences though. Charlie's Angels has a convoluted plot, Kill Bill doesn't have a plot, and There was enough blood, and gore in Kill Bill to fill the Pacific.
Only a culture which has nothing bad going on in it can make a movie with so much gore, and call it ironic, and funny. We do not have any need to face violence on a day to day basis, so we can watch this and call it entertainment. And that is what I find the most sickening. I'll say it right now, I'm not one for blood, and gore, so automatically this wasn't a movie for me. But in addition to being bloody, it is also BORING. There is just enough of a plot so that one can argue there is a reason for all the gore, but really that's just an excuse.
I thankfully was wearing a cap with a brim so I could tip the brim down so that it covered most of the screen but I could still read the subtitles. This was extremely helpful in my ability to get through the movie. I must thank Tarentino though. THANK YOU FOR PUTTING IT OUT IN TWO VOLUMES BECAUSE THAT MEANT I DIDN'T HAVE TO WALK OUT WHICH DEFINITELY WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF IT HAD BEEN IN ONE MOVIE.
This movie isn't all bad though. It is beautifully filmed, very stylized with some really breathtaking shots. The screenplay is very funny, and the first scene is very good when Uma Thurman fights with Vivian A Fox. Lucy Lui give a very good performance, too. But I left the movie theatre completely traumatized. I do not suggest this movie.
3 stars