Kill Bill: Vol 1

I remember reading somewhere that Quentin Tarentino used to peddle his movie scripts on some beach in California(suspect it is Long Beach), thrusting it in to the hands of reluctant passers-by. He surely has come a long way from there, as Kill Bill proves. Now he can dance Hollywood on his fingertips, they'll take anything he dishes out, whether it be a real decent heist story(Reservoir Dogs) or a trashy Japanes anime video game made to satisfy his destructive teenage inner self(Kill Bill).

Or did he see Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and think that only thing that movie lacked was Uma Thurman, so I better make one with her in it?!! Kill Bill, for me, is a Tarantino comedy in the guise of a video game(if you have played Dead or Alive you'd know what I am talking about). Almost all scenes were funny, like computer games you went thru' levels, first you got your transportations(yep you have to fight for it too), then you went thru' different levels of enemies with increasing sophistication - first you fought off dwarfs and gnomes, then teeming midgets, then the devil's advocate and finally the devil him/herself - thats exactly what Tarantino does in this movie, except you don't have the joystick with you, he has it and he makes sure that you win this automated game.

And like all the computer games he has a version 2 out too, for those who have mastered all the thrill of the version 1 and are asking for more.
p.s - the 'fountainsque' blood works was totally brilliant, Tarantino.