geraintlounging Reviews

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

Kill Tarantino

[5/10 · 19 October 2003]

What is the deal with Quentin Tarantino, he is haled as a God by pretty much everyone in Hollywood (apart from Spike Lee maybe), he is so good at self promotion that he has the world fooled into thinking that he is Maha Raja of La La land when in fact he is nothing more than an average movie maker. Resevior Dogs was a pretty good movie when you concider that it was his first, Pulp Fiction had everything you could want in a film, Jackie Brown, well to be honest I can't remember much about it which says everything really, and his latest, Kill Bill is just...................straight to video tosh. The action is no where near as good as the hype would lead you to believe, it simply cannot compare to the likes of Crouching Tiger or the earlier Jackie Chan flicks, he relies way too much on very shody wire work and crap camera techniques and the script which in his past movies have always been brilliant was just, well not very good really. And what was with all the gore, I like a little blood and guts just as much as the next guy, but only when it's used properlly, the film was so bloody that it actually got really boring by the time you saw the 20th person have a limb hacked off. Ok so the film had one or two redeeming features, Lucy Lu being one and Sonny Chiba being the other but that was about it really. One thing that I did find very funny though, was the fact that most of the audience didn't realise that the movie was part one of two, the abrupt ending left people wondering what was going on, that was funny. I know that I'm going to have annoyed quite a few movie geeks out there who worship at the holy shrine of Tarantino, but hey, get a life, if you want to see really visionary movies check out the likes of the Coen Brothers instead of those made by a self publicising brat. I thank you.

The Italian Job (2003)

Is that it?!

[6/10 · 19 September 2003]

This film should never have been made as a remake, maybe a follow up or a homage but not a remake. The film itself is pretty cool, good acting cool lines delivered by a cool cast, but like most people going to see this movie, I was there to see one thing only, the mini chase. The original film really built up to the getaway at the end of the movie and had one of the best climaxes to any film, but if you're going to be holding your breath for an updated version you will be most dissapointed. The mini chase to honest was rubbish, over way too quickly with no where near as much fun and excitment as the original, and the ending of the film.............well it just ends, with no suspense or anything coming close to the originals cliffhanger, it just turns out all nice and Hollywood.

My advice is, if you haven't seen the original, watch it, if you have, watch it again.