Boring - and it aint pretty either

Rating: 2/10 (8 December 2003)

What can I say. I'm no Tarentino fan, that's becoming more obvious for every movie. But this one contains all the parts I usually dislike in a Tarentino flick. It's not completely rotten, but at best it was uninspiring and downright boring. The 70's ninja-flick heritage was there along with the exaggerated sound effects, but that's hardly original. The rest of the storytelling was a strange mix of the usual Tarentino-like "reshuffled chronology" accompanied by pretty bad music (which was a dissapointment, I expected better, but I guess it's very much a matter of taste) and that familiar cartoon style which you either love or hate. (Last seen in Animatrix) The big fight in black & white was a dissapointment. It was remarkably unremarkable. Uma Thurman's performance was also varying in quality (from very good to rather theatrically silly), but I suspect that Tarentino's sometimes over-ambitious dialogue makes it feel unnatural.
All in all, it had it's (few) moments but in the end it was just the disappointment I expected.