you can't be serious

Rating: Null/10 (11 October 2003)

Tarantino's latest movie is pure crap. Should we blame the relentless Americanization of culture or simply Tarantino's burn-out? Martial arts are neither martial nor arts anymore. Just a big, boring, and sickening Rambo-like Grand Guignol. Ironically, when American directors realised that bullets killed too fast they resorted to ju-jitsu, karate, and Japanese swords and strung out the killing thing. The sheer silliness of yakuza hitmen using a katana instead of guns or of a Chinese-American woman as their "godfather" do not seem to bother Tarantino. What really matters is chopping off as many heads and limbs as possible and disembowel a fair amount of people. The underlying philosophy of martial arts is completely lost but the Schwarzeneggerian nature of modern politics is finely exposed: shameless, gratuitous violence and blood-shed. I am ashamed of those 20 people or so who applauded while I am glad nobody else in the theatre followed their example. Outrageous is that Tarantino claimed he took inspiration from Sergio Leone, a remarkable Italian director who by now must be spinning in his grave with shame and embarrassment. But after all, you know, it was ironic! I'm actually still laughing.
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Strawberries in the Supermarket by Emir Kusturica, that's irony.