loud, flashy, and full of style

Rating: Null/10 (28 October 2003)

The fourth film from oddball director Quentin Tarantino is expectedly violent, flashy, and totally off-the-wall. Thurman is well-cast as a vengeful bride who goes on a deadly mission to wipe out the ruthless gang of assassins who sandbagged her wedding and left her for dead. More specifically, her focus is on the gang's sinister boss with whom she has a much more personal vendetta. Tarantino's direction is anything but smooth—probably by intention—but with eye-popping visuals, clever references/in-jokes, bold, bloody, and pumped-up action scenes, the film pays off in spades. By design, this is only one half of the entire picture, but in that aspect it certainly works. ***