A shooting star falling out of the sky

Rating: 1/10 (12 January 2007)

Tarantino's big name earned him the chance to manufacture this slice of hubristic nonsense that he should have had the sense to have steered clear of. Kill Bill 1 is a pointless rehash of kung fu cinematic clichés - the filmic equivalent of the meandering 10 minute guitar solo from a 70s supergroup. Flash garbage is still garbage and this lot is not worth viewing even out of morbid curiosity as to how bad a once good director has become. For all his ability - brilliantly realised in Pulp Fiction and to a lesser extent Jackie Brown - Tarantino is evidently lacking in judgement and possessed of the ego that will blunder ahead straight into catastrophes like this. It's hard to say where this director can go now. There has been a steady decline in the quality of Tarantino's output since Pulp Fiction, a decline so relentless that you wonder if there can be any return. There is no sense of depth or maturity here and maybe that is because there is none to be revealed.