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 I'm
a huge fan of Quentin Tarintino's work. Reservoir
Dogs and Pulp
Fiction are two of my favorite movies. From
Dusk till Dawn is as well. [And yes, I know that
Robert Rodriguez directed it!] I loved everything
about the original trailer for "Kill Bill."
The look. The
music. The stars. How could it miss?
Let me tell you how. [Minor spoilers ahead.]
"Kill Bill" starts off well enough.
It begins with a scratchy, cheesy "Now For Our
Feature Presentation" intro straight out of the
drive-ins that I loved as a kid. There's also the retro
"Presented in Shaw-Scope" title card,
the "Revenge is a dish best served cold"
Klingon quote, and the Sonny Bono song, "Bang,
Bang" playing over the credits. Yeah baby, Quentin
was tapping in to everything that we loved about this
genre from our childhood.
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Then the movie starts with a bang. Literally. Uma
Thurman is shot in the head and left for dead.
But she's not really dead... just in a coma for
four years. And when she wakes up she must have
her revenge. Great set-up.
The action is over-the-top and brutal. The first
payback that we see is really well done. It has
the right mix of Tarantino heightened reality,
humor and action. Then we have a flashback to the
hospital and this is where the movie starts to loose
me. There are a couple of scenes with a red neck
and Buck the orderly that just really push the envelope.
And for some reason everything after that seemed
truly excessive and redundant.
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How many arterial sprays do we
need to see? How many limbs chopped off? But before
we get to that gore we have to sit through an anime
cartoon [which is pretty well done but again, very
gory], a boring dialogue about tea, and discussion
about why Uma needs a specific man to make
her sword.
When I left the theater, I was
disappointed. I had been hoping to see a really
fun, really exciting revenge film. To make matters
even worse, we don't get to see how everything turns
out, since "Kill Bill, Volume 2"
doesn't come out until February. The funny thing
is, I didn't hate the movie. I'm not sure I even
disliked it. I was disappointed... but disappointed
enough not to see the rest?
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I guess we'll know in February.
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