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She has a better sword than the others. She knows how to use it when she needs to get revenge and that she does by flying all the way to Tokyo
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via Okinawa to meet a mob leader and someone who wanted her dead. I got to the end of the first film and I still don’t know what the motive was; I am the kind of guy that would have liked to have some clues into where the fallout began instead of just knowing that Bill and his troupe all invaded the chapel where the main actress, Uma Therman, was supposedly killed. The movie was good in transporting the viewer into the subconscious world of the blond warrior.
Too much time was spent on the battle for revenge, then again that is is what Tarantino wanted: just enough fodder for the sword fight lovers to sit through some drama showing how a lady was caught during her wedding day. I liked the first few opening scenes which had me wonder whether she the same woman who was being molested by kill as the one who supposedly lost her baby during the insult. Then the movie lapses into the tale of who the blond has to settle accounts with and what order, interrupted with quality animation of a Japanese girl who witnesses her mother getting murdered. It was all a question of the art of combat, as the narrator put it.
Things that Quentin did which are cutting edge and yet too risky for me is showing a murder unfolding before a four year old with the main actress telling the kid that if she still feels raw about the assassination when she grows up she should have a showdown with the murderess. The process of killing this girl’s mom was all very graphic and meant to shock the audience with an abrupt stop to the combat when the child came home and looked like she was about to see her mother killed. I would say that there are some good points on the art of fighting with knives and swords, some good scenes like her miraculous awakening after a shot to her eye but the movie is nothing more than a settling of accounts for no clear reason.
For soembody who wants to see unexpected scenes and surprising cuts, I would watch the film but not for the story. It was cleverly cut so that Tarantino could go on to the sequel and continue the fighting scenes. The first film does little to tell you who Bill was and how he got to be a threat.
