my name is mwd

This is a fantastic film. Yes, it is a bit high on the gore side, but it’s a great story with great characters, well shot, and highly stylised. In the first two minutes you’re made to laugh and you are shocked, all before the credits roll. It’s a bit more mature than Pulp Fiction, but still has that highly styalised feel that Jackie Brown lacked. The gore makes a nice counterpoint to things like The Matrix, where there’s lots of violence without much in the way of after effects - Kill Bill makes it clear that killing isn’t a clean business, but that just makes it more realisitc, and whilst there’s a lot more of it, it’s no worse than the kid losing his head in Pulp Fiction.

Uma Thurman is really good in the lead, and is allowed to be much more expressive than she was in Pulp Fiction. Not enough Michael Madson, but I guess that’ll come in Volume 2. And I don’t normally like Lucy Lui, but here she played a much more subtle character, and it worked really well. The only missing piece was a small part for Tarantino himself; although his acting isn’t great, I quite liked the Jimmie scenes in Pulp Fiction :)

Anyway, if you thing you can handle lots of fake blood, and plenty of detached limbs, then you should go an see it.