I didn't buy Uma Thurman as a martial artist

Rating: 1/10 (10 October 2003)

Uma Thurman was totally unconvincing as a martial artist in this movie, then again so was every non-Japanese person in the film. The fight scene between Uma and Vivica Fox was edited in such a rapid-fire manner to hide the fact that neither of them could fight worth beans. During the big scene with the 100 Agent Smiths... oops I mean the "Crazy 88" gang, she swung that sword around with all the finess of a major league ball player aiming for the fence. Only when her stunt double took over did we see some decent moves. I thought maybe Lucy Liu would put up a decent fight but that one was also disappointing. The only one with any sort of promise was the character of Gogo but she didn't last long enough to really get into it. So in Vol 2, she's going to kill Daryl Hannah, Michael Madson and David Carradine... hmmm, so those fight scenes are going to suck too. Overall I liked the movie but they could have at least put some time into training as the non-martial artists in the Matrix did.