Stephen King wrote a negative review of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol.1 for Entertainment Weekly. Here's the reason why he hated it so much.
Stephen King wrote a bluntly negative review of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1, and there's one main reason why the legendary horror author hated the movie. King, who dumped a bucket of pig’s blood on Carrie White and massacred the children of Derry in It, was unimpressed by the ultraviolent antics of Uma Thurman’s Beatrix “The Bride” Kiddo in the first half of Tarantino’s revenge-seeking epic. King’s review compared Kill Bill with Clint Eastwood’s sobering drama Mystic River.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Not one to mince words when it comes to his opinions about movies, Stephen King once tweeted that he walked out of the first Transformers movie and he notoriously hates Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining. With an 85% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, and an 81% audience score on the same site, it’s clear that Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is a popular movie. But not everybody was won over by its blood-soaked charms.
Kill Bill has lengthy dialogue scenes in between its action set-pieces, which could be construed as a directorial indulgence, but King didn’t much care for the film’s violence, either. Despite the ample bloodshed in his own work, King criticized the stylized murder spree depicted in Kill Bill: Vol. 1: “The violence is choreographed like an Esther Williams swim routine... blood spurts from amputated limbs.” Based on his distaste for Kill Bill: Vol.
King Thought Uma Thurman's Performance Was The Best Part Of Kill Bill Stephen King’s review of Kill Bill: Vol. 1 wasn’t entirely negative. He did enjoy Uma Thurman’s performance, but he felt that she was let down by limited material. He wrote, “Thurman tries hard, and she’s the best thing in the movie, but in the end she’s stuck playing a woman who’s a label instead of a human being: She is, God save us, the Bride.” Part of the appeal of Kill Bill: Vol.
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