Enough, already!

Rating: 1/10 (23 October 2003)

OK, I actually walked out. I started to get violent, and Kill Bill made me want to Kill Quentin. Stab him and see if blood pours out of his body in the same fashion. I get that he's emulating the Japanese violent comics style, and I get that he pays tribute to it all through the acting, the visuals, etc. But can anyone say, `editing?' Three seconds of blood geysers, o.k. Five, maybe. Ten, and you've lost me. I am not one for the meld of cartoon and film (Dick Tracy, Bat Man, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? all bugged the hell out of me.) So I knew from the get go, hearing fifteen minutes of whiny period electric guitar "music" because Quentin didn't know when to call it quits, that I was in trouble.
Uma Thurman did a fine job, from what I saw, as the tough, revengeful assassin. I liked her a lot. But seeing the cartoons, namely the Lucy Liu back story, was too much. Too much time, too much music, too much blood. Can we say, mas-tur-bate, Quentin? Too damn long. I don't care if that's how the Japanese comics/cartoons are; it was too much. And if I was supposed to view it all with a sense of humor, well, I find watching a little girl's parents' bloody death an unlaughable situation. Maybe I'll try to go stomach it again, since some people truly enjoyed it... I did like seeing Uma kick ass, at least her kick ass attitude.