Who can deny Tarantino's greatness?

Rating: 8/10 (23 March 2004)

Kill Bill Vol. 1 is in many ways groundbreaking, experimental, it may not be the best movie i have seen in my life, but it is one of those that will be rememberred in 20 years for it's poetic and unique style. I admire Tarantino for his courage to experiment with the art of movie making and how he always tries to be original and somehow always manages to succed, even in a movie like this which has been build upon stealings from old movies, and they are obvious at times, but they are great, and the sarcastic look he gives on violence, it's all fantastic, he steps on grounds where not many others dare to step and always gets a unique result.

This movie has a lot of Tarantino touches, and honestly no one else than him could have made a good movie out of this storyline, his use of sound is, like before, outstanding, the soundtrack of the movie got a big part of the way he makes the blood and violence look poetic, yet realistic in a way.
Now i must admit i think Volume 2 will be better, this movie spend a lot of time working the story up, and i now understand why QT decided to do it in 2 parts, else it would have been too long, this way it actually works pretty well..
Now you can't watch a movie without having to put your finger down somewhere, and in this case i must say i think the movie wasn't as Adrenaline driven as expected, but then again i wouldn't directly say that is bad, because i think the fighting scenes was well stopped, i hate it when they overdo the fighting scenes and they become doll in the long run (Matrix Revolutions!), this way he managed to end everything up pretty nicely. Although i saw Zatoichi last week and the fighting sequences there was better done, but that's not Kill Bill's fault i guess, they are unique in their own way, one thing i found beautiful in and obscure way was the overdone "wooooosh", obviously inspired by crappy b-movies where these sounds are all over, but they are so exagerated in this movie that you are gonna end up loving them, a thing that only Tarantino could have done convincing.
Praising Tarantino all the time now for his genius, i gotta comment on the acting too, i think Uma Thurman is brilliant in this role, it fits her fine, this sporty, cold and driven killer. As for the others i don't think there is much to say, i liked the bodyguard for Lucy Liu, the little innocent teen girl with the big nose, but other than that i think they were just pretty average, Uma Thurman is the one that shines through, if anybody. The strong side of this movie is really the scenery, sound and directing, that's what i think.
9/10