A tribute to good action movies.

Rating: 10/10 (5 July 2004)

The story is simple. An assassin walks on on her trade. Her ex-colleagues find her some months later at her wedding and slaughter everyone, but she survives and this movie is about her revenge.
This is classic Tarrantino. For me, this is his best work yet. It is a real tribute to story telling and a tribute to Hong Kong Kung Fu movies, Japanese Anime and the all time great, Shogun Assasin. I loved the inclusion of Shogun Assassin at the end of Part 2. O'ren ends in the same was as the Masters of Death.
Authenticity was preserved in the use of Chinese and Japanese artists and it showed. From the story of O'ren in Part 1 to the final death blow in Part 2, the telling of this story rests on the pedigree of the action best story tellers.
I loved it.