Bad Bill rocks, and so does this movie

Rating: 9/10 (20 August 2013)

This movie is something of an event, a precious masterpiece, a revenge driven tale. Compared to number 2, you wonder why this one's so violent, but lovers of gore will lap it up here, as there's plenty. Quentin has sprung back from his Jackie Brown failure, leaps and bounds, which apparently got him depressed, and for many reasons I can see why. In this dynamite violent movie, extravaganza, violence in abundance, he should have a lot to be happy about. Again it's first rate story telling, as our surviving heroine, Thurman, exacts revenge on her bunch of operatives, led by her husband Bill, (Carradine, who unfortunately you'll only see in Volume 2), responsible for shooting her down and killing her baby. We have elongated scenes, essential to the story, that QT knows how to make interesting, including that insignificant CU shot on a cup of coffee. The characters of this elite squad are larger than life, better than the super heroes you worship. Like Carradine, Michael Madsen almost ceases to exist here, seen briefly in two, three shots, bringing one memorable and inspirational line to this explosively exciting flick, a cinema must see. The sword fighting is great and going on Beatrice's (Thurman's) quest of vengeance as if riding alongside is an experience itself. I love revenge tales, but this unhurried one is so well told, where we're never see another genius story teller like this, at least for the next hundred years. Oh, did I forget to mention the QT humour, yes it's back, in check. This movie is such an impressively, colorfully violent tale, which makes nights at the movies what they really should be. The great Parks, playing his From Dusk Till Dawn character, makes an appearance, while in Voulme Two, he plays a Mexican brothel owner, really showing us what character's acting about. The music's great in this, with QT borrowing an old classic in it's opening after Thurman's execution, where an old proverb precedes this. The final fight scene, in the Chinese snow garden, is just typical of Tarantino, and his classic wit, in a film, void of any dull moment.