Review of Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) by Steven T — 21 Jan 2019

Kill Bill commits the cardinal sin of giving the audience only a half baked story and it hurts the film. Throughout Kill Bill, I got the sense that Tarantino thinks he is being more clever than he actually is.

This is easily the worst of Tarantino's four features (the other three being Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown). At this point, it's difficult to tell whether the story as a whole is worth telling - that judgment will have to await the release of Volume 2.

But, based on what's available for the time being, I can only recommend Kill Bill for die-hard Tarantino buffs and Hong Kong action junkies. Everyone else would do better to stay away and avoid the bitter disappointment of seeing how the greed of a distributor can degrade the movie-going experience.

The action scenes are, as expected exciting but the dialogue(Tarantino's strong trait) aren't much to sneeze at.