This Is Literally Too Much; Prefer Vol. 2

Rating: 5/10 (13 July 2006)

This is a simple tale and a favorite theme of filmmakers: revenge. There is even a Kill Bill Vol. 2 which came out six months later, making the total time close to four hours.
All of it revolves around a character who is left for dead and her husband-to-be killed at their wedding. She goes after those responsible, mainly "Bill," played by David Carradine.
Personally, I liked the second film much more because this one got carried away with the flying martial arts-type violence. Oh, yes, being a Tarantino film it's going to be stylish mayhem, but there is just too much of it.
As in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and subsequent films of that nature, there is a lot of swordplay and flying bodies, floating in the air, doing somersaults and other outrageous physically-impossible feats. That's okay if one doesn't overdo it, but, sadly that's the case here as "The Bride" (Uma Thurman) literally fights and defeats about 100 guys in one long scene. The violence and lunacy of that scene got tiresome but I give Tarantino credit for one thing: he did that particular segment in black-and-white, which was very cool twist.
Also, there was too much Japanese spoken in this film with no subtitles, leaving all English-speaking viewers out in the cold as to what was being said. At least have the courtesy to provide subtitles if you 're going to have that much unexplained dialog.
Stick to Kill Bill Vol. II. It summarizes this movie and gives you a much more intelligent and better story overall.