Tarantino Returns!

Rating: 10/10 (10 October 2003)

I was entranced with Tarantino the first time I saw "Reservoir Dogs," and that movie is one of my 5 or 10 favorite movies. Then "Pulp Fiction" showed everyone else what kind of movie maker this guy is. "Jackie Brown" was fine but nothing special.
In "True Romance" (which Tarantino scripted), the lead character praises a big movie guy about his movies being "MOVIES". And "Kill Bill" is exactly that. It's a MOVIE.
It's cool. It's style. It's kinetic. It's a great achievement of film of a movie maker at the top of his game.
Very few movies actually reach a level of going beyond the "typical" style of a movie. And that's what Tarantino can create. He creates a universe, a world where anything he puts up on screen works.
This is easily the best movie of 2003.