Quentin Tarantino film starring Uma Thurman as an assassin that was shot in the head on her wedding day, wakes up in a coma five years later and seeks out those that tried to kill her.
I had read a few reviews. Most liked it, but some said it was too violent and there was too much blood. I guess they didn't notice the title of the movie.
I thought this movie was tons of fun. It was violent in the way True Romance was violent, except it was cartoonish violence at times. If you have watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail and how the blood comes spurting out of the knight ("It's only a flesh wound!"), then it is that kind of blood. It's hilarious.
There is fight after fight after fight. There isn't much of a plot and not a lot of cool lines like in other Tarantino movies. It's pretty much a bunch of fighting. It starts off with a fight in the first scene and the second to last scene is a huge fight scene.
Uma Thurman was awesome. Daryl Hannah is scary as hell. What the hell happened to her? She didn't age well. Lucy Liu is cool and Vivica A. Fox didn't last too long. Mr. Blonde makes a brief appearance, but I think he's going to be in the next movie more.
There was an anime bit and I thought it was okay. I hate anime, but this didn't have the annoying bits of anime that I hate so it was fine. I just wish it was shorter. It was a tad distracting.
I do love the way it was directed. I wish there was more dialogue, but the fighting was fun.
Rating: A-
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Director: George Clooney
George Clooney directs a script by Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation). It’s an adaptation of a memoir about the guy who hosted the Gong Show saying he used to be a CIA hitman.
Chuck Barris is the guy who hosted the Gong Show. He also created The Dating Game and the Newlywed Game. He is played by Sam Rockwell, who was Guy in Galaxy Quest. He does a great job being Chuck Barris. I only know him from those bad bad tuxes he would wear on the Gong Show and when he does those scenes, he could be him. Of course that is only a brief moment of the movie.
It starts out pretty disjointed. I actually forgot it was written by Charlie Kaufman, but for him it was pretty straightforward movie. I think George Clooney did a good job directing. There were some cool ways he did scenes, like once Barris was talking on the phone with a tv executive guy. Instead of the screen splitting to show him on one side and the tv guy on the other, the room that Barris was in kinda faded away so you could only see his face. In the background was the tv guy at his desk. Drew Barrymore, who was his girlfriend, was dancing around while he made this phone call and she goes dancing through the tv guy’s office in the middle of the phone call. I’m sure I described that all stupid, but it was pretty neat to watch.
Back to being disjointed, like I am being in this review. 
It started out that way and then finally got a rhythm when it showed him being recruited to be an independent consultant to the CIA. The movie never really tells you if that was true or not. It could have all been in his mind or real. Don’t know!
After the slow start, it was entertaining movie. Great cameos that I don’t want to spoil. Julia Roberts plays an assassin contact and her role is very funny. My favorite part though was when the FCC guy tells the Dating Game people about keeping their lewd comments to themselves or be fined. Apparently the Dating Game was too tacky to air and they had to reshoot the first few episodes before they aired. The FCC guy is way over the top and hilarious. That scene needs to be seen.
Grade: B
It's a "making of" documentary about a film that was never completed. Terry Gilliam was trying to make a movie about Don Quixote, but everything that could go wrong does.
In case you don't know, Terry Gilliam was part of Monty Python and has directed such good films like Brazil, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Meaning of Life, etc.
He wanted to make a movie about Don Quixote. Watching this documentary makes you wish that you could watch the movie. You barely get to see any of it being filmed, which would have starred Johnny Depp, because everything in the world goes wrong. Big natural disasters such as a downpour in the desert changing the color of the light tan landscaping into dark brown and ruining all previously shot footage since it doesn't match. Then there is the guy who was to play Don Quixote has prostrate trouble and can't ride a horse for a few months. Huge windstorms come through the same desert and nothing can be shot when that is going on, wasting tons of time and money on people standing around waiting for nature to behave.
My one wish would be that the documentary was shorter. It wasn't all that long but it did drag in points. I would have made a nice hour documentary special on television instead a 90-minute movie.
It did look really pretty and Don Quixote was one of my favorite stories I had to read for school. I would have loved to have seen this movie.
Rating: B+
