I really don't understand why this is a classic

Rating: 5/10 (13 February 2016)

The CG effects and color blending is perfect, I will give it that, but the plot is boring to death. This is a thousand levels lower than the average Samurai movies I've seen else where, and it can't even smell the toes of mob movies like Godfather. It is a mediocre fantasy of a white girl kicking the ass of a famous Japanese mob, and it has the stink of white supremacy.
First of all, how can an white assassin that waked up from a four-year coma suddenly become a such excellent Japanese sword user, that even beats a mob lead by one of the best Japanese assassin: Oren Ishii? During the time they run around killing people like cowboys with guns and powder, Oren has ruled Japan with her extraordinary sword work. Oren is not just a mob leader; she has a traumatic past and the superhuman gift that allows her to take down the famous gangster: Matsumoto in her first shot at the age of nine. After that, she has always been struggling in the swamp of blood and violence. But she didn't even last 5 minutes in the fight with our bloody bride: four minutes and 59 seconds, to be exact. After she is wounded on the knees, she seems to surrender in her heart. But before that the bloody bride has been wounded all over her body, and has been severely scratched from her back by Oren. The bride is much more physically and mentally exhausted than the elite assassin Oren, how come she is so easily subdued? If this bloody bride is such a genius, how come she was so easily eliminated by the assassins 4 years ago? Watching a whole hall of overlaying corpses displayed in the pool of blood, I sink into deep suspicion.
Second of all, we understand that Bill is a student of Hattori Hanzo. Hattori writes "BILL" on the window right after the bride says: "I have come here for one of your student."Therefore Bill is one of Hattori's students. Oren also holds deep respect for this retired sword-builder, but Hattori decides to build the sword for the bride without hesitation. He even gave the bride a Japanese Kimono to finish the ceremony of granting her the sword, so he actually hold deep grudges towards those student of his? Japanese mobs are not regretful towards their deeds, they are merciless cold blood murderers: they play by the rule, then they enjoy the success. Hattori has done making swords for 28 years, and he also finished his education for Bill long ago, now he suddenly feel sorry for this strange white girl and decide to overthrow all his gangster philosophy and help to kill his former students? It does make any sense.
The only thing I appreciate here is the camera work and the opponent colors: white and black, yellow and blue, red and green, all the colors render this movie an surreal quality. With the insertion of comic book fragments, I guess this movie is supposed to tell a legend, because the movements and characters are so elegant and fluent and distant like they step off a fairy-tale. The director is perfect, I will give his story-telling techniques a hundred points. But the plot is unfit for a large scale fiction movie like this. Hate to break it to you, Quentin Tarantino, you have to find a better comic book next time.