Josef “Jeff” Sipek

Rating: 3.5 stars (out of 5)

Warning: The following text is not guaranteed to be spoiler free. Reader’s discretion advised.

Well, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is much like Quentin Tarantino’s other film Pulp Fiction, that is, the movie is told non-sequentially. It is not as interleaved as Pulp Fiction, where you have about 4 stories told at the same time. Basic story is, a wedding is interrupted by 5 assassins, they kill everyone, or so they think. Some time later, the former bride wakes up from a coma, gets very aggravated, and starts killing the assassins. By the movies end, she gets two. My guess is, she’ll get the rest in Volume 2.

The one thing that made me give this movie 3.5 stars is the silliness of the fight scenes. It made me look at the movie as a comedy, more than a YAAF™. Without this humorous view, interesting camera effects and non-sequentiality, this would be just a sub-par action flick.