Kill Kill Bill

Rating: 2/10 (13 September 2006)

I loved Pulp Fiction and Resouvier Dogs. I hated Kill Bill so much that I have absolutely no intention of ever seeing Kill Bill 2. What KB says to me is that Quentin had only a couple of good story lines in him, and he's already done them. Now he's still got to put food on the plate and tell his friends that he's got a job, and so he continues to make movies, but the difference is that he's got no decent ideas left. "I've always wanted to do a strictly revenge movie". Yeah, I've always had a bunch of empty movie ideas in my head too, but no one is prepared to back me like they are with Tarantino. So what is the problem with KB? Pulp and Dogs were fabulous from the opening scenes. The dialogue, music, characters and everything else was terrific, and the films continued that way all the way through. Kill Bill starts with none of that, and the opening scene really tells the whole story. A blonde woman that I have no reason to give a stuff about (we have no idea who she is at the start, since there has been no character build up), walks up to a door that is opened by another woman that I have no reason to give a stuff about (for the same reasons), and then we are accosted by the cheesiest dramatic music and camera play I've ever seen, and the director screams at me in my chair "THIS IS AN EXCITING MOMENT, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE EXCITED ABOUT THE APPROACHING CONFRONTATION". Um, why? I don't care about either of these women. We don't know who they are, so who gives a rats bum if the whole building blows up and we cut to some different actors for the rest of the flick? Unfortunately the rest of the flick did nothing to save this sad beginning, and I found myself not caring about this blonde woman for an hour and a half. Do you really mean to tell me that I have to wait till the end of Kill Bill 2 to find out whether Bill was justified in what he did to this woman, or whether she's been hard done by? Get stuffed, I've got better things to do, and far better films to watch. Oh yeah, I did enjoy the Japanese cartoon section. In fact, I found it to be down right hilarious. I felt like I was watching one of those TV skit shows that rip off other shows and movies, and I laughed so hard that I had tears streaming down my face. After that the rest of the movie continued to waste my time. If Quentin wants to take my money again one day in the future, I hope he puts in a little work and effort next time to make it worth my while.