"just because it's intentionally bad, does not make it good"

Rating: 6/10 (27 December 2003)

I dont know about generally overrated... but when some QT nuts claim it's the movie of the century (the old and the new one), I think they definetly are overrating it and its importance to the future of film-making.
I personally understand QT's intentions with the visual style of KB v1. But however hard he tries to give it that good ol' B-action/martialarts-from-back-then, he cannot make me forget that this is infact a multi million $ movie; its a big-budget low-budget wannabe. Why didn't he simply make it low budget to begin with?!
Story-wise KBv1 is an orgy of worn-out chlichés (which might also be the intention).In fact, the "story" seems simply to be an excuse for QT to show off some skills in capturing visual styles. The characters are high-school-script flat, and 1-st grade-home-made-comic stereotype. Heck, I've seen kids who play with LEGO present more interesting characters.

Conclusively, I would like to cite a good friend of mine "just because it's intentionally bad, does not make it good"

Score: 6.8
**************************************************************************** ***