Ill Bill
Watched Kill Bill, both Volume 1 and 2, yesterday and was amazed and shocked. I was amazed and shocked by how mediocre they are. After all the favourable reviews and opinions, it fell short of expectations. Let's dissect these supposedly B-movies.
Most important component of all, at least for me, is story. There is minimal content storywise. Unengaging plots. Bare and thin character developments. A member of an assasination group wanted to write a clean new page in her life. The group prevented this by killing everyone on the wedding day. The girl survived and sought revenge. They were supposedly elite but didn't know she was still alive? The clues were all over the scene yet the authorities couldn't even get a swiff who did it. Not to mention the name, the lame Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (or some such, too lame to bother remembering). They didn't kill her outright after knowing she survived, even let her hone her skills.
The story (the sorry excuse of what it was) was there merely to provide a convinient means for the fights.
The fights itself, the coreography. One lone protagonist butchering dozens and dozens of enemy easily barely breaking sweat and no scratch. Those were highly trained 'soldiers' yet fell like flies. Uma Thurman couldn't even hold the katana correctly. Go figure.
Special effects, what special effect?
Next. Musics. Nothing impressive here either.
What was I left with? Similar to what Lucy Liu said: Westerners playing with katana (it's katana not samurai sword!) trying to imitate Wu Xia films but failed misserably.
People must be so desperate to watch 'kungfu flicks' that they will settle for anything.
Art movie? Don't make me laugh.
No wonder hollywood can get away with anything.
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