Too much blood for me--I've got a high tolerance for the stuff, but I'm not a vampire.

Rating: 6/10 (27 May 2019)

First off, I'm not writing a review for each "Volume" of "Kill Bill". I'm guessing that most people are going to be like me and watch the whole thing straight through, since it's really one continuous movie. Second, this is the second time I've seen both of them together. If I would have rated it after the first time I watched them, I would have given them a 4, but now I'm upping it to a 6. Disturbingly, I'm probably just getting inured to violence in our world (both fictional and nonfictional). There is absolutely no denying that "Kill Bill" is an ultra-stylish film. If you're not such a fanboy that you can't divide Tarantino films into good ones and bad ones, this would definitely fall on the good side of the ledger. But you can never forget that this is a Tarantino film, and it's the bloodiest one that I can think of off hand. I don't mean buckets of blood, I mean Olympic-sized swimming pools of the red, gooey stuff. I know that to some degree, this film is tongue-in-cheek, and, also, that it is an homage to certain films of the past, but for me personally, the gore eventually drowned everything else out. Tarantino likes to claim that he isn't out to glorify violence, but this film puts paid to that nonsense. This is 4 hours of nearly non-stop, bright neon-lit, high-decibel, advertising advocating violence. Nobody is going to be convincing me that Tarantino doesn't have some serious psychological issues, although I'll leave that to others to speculate what those might be. Still, if you want to watch Tarantino at his bloodiest and in near perfect form, you should add this one to your "must-see" list (as opposed to misfires like "Django Unchained" and "The Hateful Eight"). I wouldn't be surprised if my stomach is just a bit weak compared to the average movie watcher, and this film won't bother most people at all, which kind of bothers me.