Inexcusable Crap

Rating: 1/10 (26 October 2003)

First off, let me say this: I am a Quentin Tarantino fan. My DVD collection includes everything he has written or directed. It will not contain Kill Bill.
I went into this film expecting to love it. I came out revulsed and disgusted. Where QT has always used violence and mayhem to make statements about people and culture, here he has made a film about violence for the sake of violence. I have a pretty strong stomach, but the sight of a small child's mother being brutally murdered before her eyes was too much for me. Especially when the murderer is the character we are supposed to be rooting for. The child's reaction was played for grins, not for pathos. Shortly thereafter another child's parents are brutally murdered in such close proximity that the child is doused with their blood. This child seeks revenge, which leads to the single most offensive line I have heard spoken in a film: "Fortunately for her, [bad guy] was a pedophile."
Unfortunately for us, Tarantino has lost his way.