kung-fu meets crime thriller and western

Rating: 4/10 (26 October 2013)

Every time someone explains how good Kill Bill was, i remember what happened when i told a Chinese colleague how much i liked Crouching Tiger, hidden Dragon (2000). What was exciting for me was for him just another wuxia film merging kung-fu with a love story.
True to himself, Tarantino merged kung-fu motives with crime thriller and, to certain extent, western. Love story was relevant only for viewers who believe that love must hurt and in Kill Bill that is rather literal.
The result is a watchable movie that is mostly interesting. As it is the case in most of Tarantino work, this was not the one i'd like to see again. It is not the violence that turns me off, but a lack of message and the hype that surrounds it.