Bloody Good Fun...

Rating: 8/10 (11 October 2003)

It seems to me that many of the people who take issue with this film expected it to be another Pulp Fiction. This is rather foolish. Tarantino will never make a film better than Pulp Fiction simply because we have idolized it so much over the past decade. It is already a classic, and deserves to be.
Kill Bill is just bloody (in all senses of the word) good fun. Once again Tarantino manages to take all the cliches from every genre and combine them to make something fresh and new. No other director today seems to be able to do this as well as he. My only complaints are #1 - Damn you Harvey Weinstein for cutting it in half. Albeit, they did manage to end it well and keep the pacing. Secondly, I wish they had gone one way or the other with the Crouching Tigerness of the fight scenes. There are brief moments where characters appear to fly or make incredible leaps, but then the rest will come back to earth. It's unclear. Certainly don't let that stop you from seeing it. In an age where sequels and prequels and remakes are dominating the industry, costing millions of dollars and being hyped into deification, only to let us down, Kill Bill finds it's target. Bloody good fun indeed.