Reviews

"Kill Bill" (vol. 1 & 2) is, at first sight, a great action movie. I like it very, very much, from the first to the last frame. I like everything, from the score to the actors, from the story to the way it is de-constructed, from its humor to its worse explosions of violence, from its beautiful B&W sequences to the cartoons à la Manga. "Kill Bill", with its own way to mix different flavors, cultures and origins, is one of my favorites ever. Definitely a great film, a milestone in cinema history. There is no need for another reason to love "Kill Bill".

There's another one, though : "Kill Bill" is a beautiful, wonderful, almost perfect, touching, sincere, desperate love letter from Quentin Tarantino to Uma Thurman. Just try to find a single frame that doesn't depict "My Actress" (as he calls her since 1994) as beautiful, desirable, strong, indestructible, sexy, attractive, smart, child-loving,...Who would resist ?

This "movie" was broad-casted last night on a french network. I couldn't believe my eyes how bad it was. There's absolutely nothing good about it. I mean nothing. Acting was zero, "science" completely stupid, backgrounds and CGI look like being painted by a 50's artist, and so on. I understand that even better artists need sometimes to pay big taxes so they have to play in second choice productions...But please ! Not in such a crap ! About location : Cape Town, South Africa, is perfectly recognizable in most exterior scenes (Table Mountain with Signal Hill on its right when looking from the sea; the business center of the city; even in some street scenes you can see typical buildings with Old Cape Dutch style; the license plates are definitely capetonians; on a house wall there is a plate claiming that the house is protected by Chubb Security Company; in one scene you can see a train, which is a Metro one, used in CPT,...etc.).

A "movie" to forget. There's nothing else to do with it.