I saw it last night, and here's what I thought.....

Rating: 10/10 (22 October 2003)

This movie is the perfect watch-with-your-mouth-open flick. It's visually pleasing with all of the camera angles and kung fu scenes, humorously macabre (see blood squirt for long times from a severed arm, and consistent with other Tarrantino film themes (murder, revenge, action, power struggles)
Those who have written that the Writer/Director has no range with his stories, apparently never read an interview with QT. He is not a coming-of-age movie type guy. His interest lies in movies that inspired him as a youth, and his focus in cinema is on violent, sarcastic, action flicks with smarmy dialogue.
The only downside is that I have to wait until Volume 2 to see what happens next. I wasn't ready to leave the theater.