Not very original, but Highly Stylized!

Rating: Null/10 (18 October 2003)

This movie is not to original... I mean if you have seen Battle Royale, Suicide Circle, Versus, Samurai Fiction, and a few other Asian Cinema "Standards" of the genera.. This film takes those movies...whipps them up, adds a dash of Hollywood, and presto... KILL BILL is born. I don't need to go into plot...Everyone else already has.. But rest assured that if you are so sick of hollywood crap, and you need a good dose of asian style funk, this film is for you.. My only gripe? The huge fight sequence was transformed into Black and White..(With good cinematic effect that I suspect was supposed to represent the adrenaline rush that The Bride has.. as it goes away with a blink of her eyes after the fight)... BUT I think that it was to keep this film from getting a stupid NC-17 rating.. For those craving the fight, B&W sucked half the life from it.
If you have seen the movies mentioned above.. you will realize that this movie is a bit wimpy in the blood department and makes up for it with STYLE!