Now That's A Movie! - Spoilers

Rating: 10/10 (14 October 2003)

With the cost of seeing a film reaching an unGodly amount, a film has got to be totally worth it, its got to deliver and Kill Bill delivers in spades. Does this mean that its a movie you recommend to everyone? No. I am not going to recommend it to too many girls I know, or anyone over the age of sixty five. I am however going to espouse its virtues to any true lover of films. Is it better than any of the other three films Tarantino has created, its hard to say, it will be easier to determine once Volume 2 is released and then wait for about 10 years. Right now it doesn't matter because its recaptured that feeling I had when I first walked out of Pulp Fiction, although Jackie Brown is my favorite by a slight margin and I did walk out of that viewing totally thrilled, Pulp Fiction was like a drug and Kill Bill has that same effect.
I had read the screenplay when it was first on-line and I wish I hadn't in a way but really it didn't matter because it did not prepare me for what was on the screen. This movie isalive and knowing that the best is yet to come I can't wait. Every positive has been talked about and touched upon by every scribe in North America so I will quickly go over the obviously great aspects of this hyper active revenge tale.
Uma Thurman - Sexy as hell and f*****g bad ass. The female Charles Bronson. I can't understand how some people feel that her character is underwritten and undermotivated, I don't get it. What more do you want. She was a killer, she got shot in the head by her Ex husband and boss, her new husband and family were killed, she was pregnant at the time, she went into a coma where her body was peddled by a depraved orderly, she wakes up to realize this little detail then realizes that she lost the kid. She is super pissed and has more need for revenge than any character I can remember.
The music - This might be the greatest part of the film, because it is stuck in my head like a ten inch blade. I love the use of Nancy Sinatra's "Bang Bang", The Enrico Marccone score is used to great effect and the one that really gets me going is the "Green Hornet" theme that plays as Uma heads to Tokyo. It all just kicks ass.
Go Go Yubari - Every scene she was in she stole. Those eyes, that face. I love that little asian school girl giggle she gives as the ball and chain hit the floor. Like I read somewhere, I think on "Chud" she is the Boba Fett of the new millenium.
O'Ren Ishi's anime backstory - Unreal, I love how the animation gets better as she "gets better". Its completely involving and creates such a unique tone to the film without really taking you out of the story. Its thrilling.
The dialogue - now alot of people are talking about how it isn't Tarantino's best, how there isn't enough of it and the stuff that is there seems forced or too contrived, too "hey look at me". I don't buy it, I would buy it with a critique on "From Dusk Till Dawn", but not here. There is no need for long witty pop culture referenced sililoques. Whats there is enough, anyway it does serve a purpose later and you know with Michael Madsen there we will get a taste of some original verbiage. Its a different film from his others.
Is there anything I didn't like? Well there are some aspects as with all great films. One of them concerns her obtaining of the Hanzo blade. It lacked the whollup, the scene as a whole was great, but maybe too quick. I was one of the people that didn't like the switch to black and white during the "House Of Blue Leaves" battle, the obvious body double didn't help and the use of the steel sometimes did not seem right. These were all small details, overall the film was great.
Lucy Liu was beautiful, what a great character. I love the little Sonny Chiba scene "The Man From Okinawa", but like I said it might of been too quick.
Now to all those that bitch about the film and how its cut in two and this sucked and that sucked, just wait, I guarantee the next film will be unbelievable and then we can sit back and judge it as a whole, and just like Jacki Brown people will come around. Tarantino is not God but he sure can make going to the movies fun as hell.