If you like bloody movies with little to no plot, then this is for you!!!

Rating: 1/10 (12 November 2003)

This has got to be the bloodiest movie I have ever seen. The special effects of the blood spurting out and the body parts lying all over is something that I have just never seen before in a movie. There is also nice martial art action if you like that. So good for "Special Effects" & the choreographer.
But the plot is almost non-existent. One wonders what screenwriters who write movies like this do with their time. Most of the time in the movie is alloted to choreographers doing martial arts and special effects squirting blood and spreading body parts around.
There are no plot twists or intrigue or mystery in this film. The only thing that could be construed as mystery is why all the killing started in the first place, but that question never gets answered in this movie. But there is obviously a sequel because she doesn't finish all her killing. There's more to come. More blood squirting & body parts to be scattered around I suppose.
I guess I'm just another one of those "simpletons" that just didn't get it. I was looking for some plot development where the screenwriter would have to earn his fee. But here I guess Tarantino, being director as well as writer (along with Thurman - notice she had never written for the screen before) was more interested in displaying his directorial capabilities (???) than as a screenwriter. It just hit me - Tarantino was already being paid as the director, so why should he spend much time writing - that would just double his workload for what would probably be the same fee.
From a more serious viewpoint, it is a sorry indication of how far downhill society has gone when people are so highly entertained (rating of 8.3 at this writing) with such low emotion. I was actually laughing at the blood squirting, but I would rather be laughing at a true comedy. Perhaps the blood squirting was meant to be satirical in some weird perverted way. Romans were entertained by feeding Christians to the lions. Through the nineteenth century public executions were considered entertainment. This movie, "Kill Bill" is a throwback to those sadistic emotions and I would that society were headed in the other direction.
I give it a 2/10 for the martial arts & special effects because those are not features that attract me to a movie. Lack of plot & lack of concern for real entertainment take it to a 1/10.