A celebration of movies

Rating: Null/10 (20 April 2004)

I haven't watched Kill Bill vol.1 yet. I watched Vol. 2 last night. It is an amazing celebration of kung fu movies, sphagetti westerns, meaningless action movies and all stuff that is cool. Its biggest strength is that the movie knows what it is doing. You are meant to take the movie seriously in a different way - not as in caring deeply about the characters and whether certain things happen to them or not - but how cool the movie really is. Quentin Tarantino has brought together an immense array of talent and has stacked them exactly the way he wants them stacked. That then is his genius, to know what exactly what you want to do and to do a damn good job of that. One of the most interesting and complete films from one of the most interesting and complete filmmakers. Now if only he took all his talent and worked on some really serious and meaningful themes ... that would be a challenge!