I love this film, but I am not so happy to admit it ..

Rating: Null/10 (5 January 2004)

I have to agree with every complaint regarding this film. There is so much violence. The story is so simple. QT is evidently strongly inspired from many old movies. And so on .. Yet, few days ago I saw it in a cinema for the second time and .. I loved it again. How to explain it .. my strongest feeling is, that QT completely enjoyed every moment of making this "retro" movie and somehow his joy emanates from the movie, at least for most of us.
**** Few possible lesser spoilers follows ****
One thing I considered great are characters. Go Go looks so sadistically evil (in her seventeen!!), that everybody must run away just guessing her coming, trust me! Freddy Krueger was just a funny old neighbor.. O-Ren Ishii is wonderfully mythical Japanese (geisha? ninja?), at least until her Chinese / American "taint" shows :-) Hattori Hanzo and his two faces - funny shopkeeper / noble samurai sword-maker are just flawless. And there are others, excellent as well!
Another great part are scenes. A beautiful Japanese winter garden is probably the best but there are many others - blue/red pool, Yakuza brainstorming, Hattori Hanzo katanas, anime scene etc.

Last but not the least, the humor. Just the right amount of it and usually on right places. A little girl entering the house - everything is broken and crushed, shards and blood everywhere, her mother and stranger women all in blood with their hands hiding knives behind back: What has happened mommy? - Well, you see, sweetheart, it was your little nasty dogie ..

Few interesting pointers leads to part II, probably. Protagonist name is not mentioned at all (actually in one scene is even "censored" - beep method :-), only a code name. In the part, when Uma leaves the Japan by airplane you can spot a second katana in the plane but not its owner .. And the end point of this part 1 is good too, luckily.

Shortly, if you can understand that the film doesn't try to be serious and if you do not mind to accept that violence may be so funny to watch (strange though may it be) you may love the film as I do .. and still you may ask yourself: how is it possible I like such things? Frankly, I do not know the answer for myself.
I give 9/10