Deceiving, over the top, short

Rating: 5/10 (6 April 2012)

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For a film with such a good reputation, I was really expecting more...
The storyline on a whole is quite weak, based on the murder by one woman of about 150 people: quite a feat but it ends there. The opening scenes give an illusionary first taste to the film: promising, mysterious, violent.
Then the action kicks in. Exaggerated, flamboyant, a bit over the top, fine, I like that..... usually. The problem here is that it takes this too far, and its all quite grim.
From beginning to end, the whole story is focused on the murder of 2 people who murdered the Bride's family at her wedding.
When the viewer finally gets used to the film, the Bride has butchered a small army of Chinese in what is a rather entertaining scene (but still over the top), walks on to kill the Chinese assassin and the film basically ends there!
However it has left me curious as to how this will end, and for this reason, I will watch the sequels, hoping they will be more to my taste.
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