a total blast

Rating: 8/10 (17 October 2003)

never has there been such silliness looking so stylish. I must admit it gripped me most of the time. A schlocky, tabloid masterpiece. Tarentino's violence is stylised, cartoonish which adds so much to the whole insane enterprise. But what craft there is here. The black silhouttes against the blue background in the House of Blue Leaves, the last swordfight in the drifting snow. It's exhilarating.