For a corridor of chopped off limbs...

Rating: 9/10 (29 December 2016)

Volume 1 of Tarantino's famous revenge story is an absolute joy for film lovers.
The homages to 70's Samurai flicks, Spaghetti-Western and trashy exploitation cinema are great and many, but the movie always stays focused and feels like his own thing, rather than a carbon copy of anything.
The cinematography is as amazing as it get's, i think there is not a single shot in this film, which don't look amazing. The lighting is very artistic and complex, the visual ideas interesting and every scene feels different and has another clever idea how to be the most effective visualization of a situation.
The script is amazing, simple setup like the movies it homages, but the dialogue is brilliant and fun to listen to, so that it never get 's boring.
Speaking of never getting boring, the action in this film is incredible, but used sparingly and never overstays it's welcome. And it's gory as hell, but that's suspected from a Tarantino-flick, but how the blood waves explode out of the bodies is an obvious homage to the old Samurai flicks, like the ones from Kurosawa.
The soundtrack is strange and a wild mix from many other films (also like expected) but it's as strange that it works so well...
The actors all do a great job, especially Uma Thurman who i just knew from completely different movies, where i loved her performances already, even if the movie was crap (Batman and Robin; My Super Ex-Girlfriend), everyone else also get pushed from the director to give the most fitting performance they could.
This is my favourite Tarantino-flick alongside The Hateful Eight and Jackie Brown...