Anyone else notice how popular the movie Kill Bill, in both installments, has been with critics? I for one found the movie very entertaining and technically well-done, but as usual with a Tarantino effort, vastly overrated. There is no real plot to speak of, no character development, and at times the dialogue slips into unintentional Tarantino self-parody. Tarantino wants so desperately to be cutting-edge and hip, and his desperation is apparent in his moves. Kill Bill is no exception, and in focusing exclusively on making a "cool" movie rather than a good movie, the effect is quite the opposite of cutting-edge.
But man, is it violent. Volume 1 especially. And yet that doesn't seem to bother the critics. Amazing, given how worked up they all were a couple of months ago when The Passion came out. Apparently orgiastic violence in the service a rather thoughtless and pointless movie is okay, but a heartfelt depiction of the actual events, as told in the Bible, surrounding Christ's crucififixion is off-limits and subject to third-rate psychoanalysis of Mel Gibson's supported masochistic fantasies and latent homosexuality. That's especially hilarious in light of the fact that between the two directors, Tarantino is much more likely to have taken it up the ass. And as for masochism, he did come up with the Gimp after all.
This just goes to show you that when it comes to intellectual honesty as well as to a host of other character traits too extensive to go into at the moment, movie critics, like pretty much all other people, suck.