Tarantino's worst yet

Rating: 1/10 (19 December 2004)

In general i'm not really a fan of Quentin Tarantino's. To me his films seem to have a kind of smirking self-consciousness, a smug "cool" cleverness to them that irritates me. However, to his credit, "Reservoir Dogs" and, to a lesser extent, "Pulp Fiction" did have a few moments of dialog that i actually thought were almost as clever as Tarantino obviously thought they were. But "Kill Bill"? Not a clever line in sight. Quite the opposite, really. The film contained what had to be some of the dumbest dialog i have ever heard. The whole film was like a continuous stream of terrible one-liners and recycled kung-fu clichés. I know, i know, a lot of people found it entertaining, but personally i found it rather boring in it's own hyper-adrenaline way. I need a bit of substance in my films for me to find them engaging, and really, can you honestly say that "Kill Bill" had anything resembling substance? Did it even have a real plot that takes more than a sentence to explain? Or even an original, interesting idea? This movie is all flash, and flash alone doesn't get you anywhere in my book.