Quentin Tarantino is a special director!

Rating: 8/10 (25 March 2005)

Anyone can film a remake. A tribute. Revamped stories. Ripoffs films. Etc. All been done many times, and rarely well.
What makes Tarantino's films - especially the Kill Bill films - so special is that while there are co many aspects that pay tribute to cinematic history, they are only ASPECTS of the film. Tarantinos' film-making is poetry - he does not rely on one genre or another, one style or another, one film or another. He is able to thank all of his own muses individually, while remaining a unique screenwriter and director with something important to say on screen. Characters that would otherwise be ridiculous, actors that are often sub-par, dialogue that could be boring as hell - he brings it all to LIFE in a way that VERY FEW directors are capable of doing. He is a Kurosawa, an Attenborough, a Spielberg of our time - a true cinematic artist. And in thirty years, when everyone forgets that The Alamo or Hidalgo ever existed, Kill Bill will be regarded by film fans and scholars alike as one of the very best of its era - and will likely be paid tribute by the dynamos of the future just as Tarantino gives a salute to his idols.