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You really need a strong stomach to see this movie. Many movies have violence but this one has it in "spades". Normal human beings feel revulsion over killing and everything in this movie is focused to make you feel that revulsion and that's my point: The director has gone too far in emphasizing the killing. There were at least 16 people killed including one particularly gruesome scene where several fingers and an ear were amputated.

The plot is simple: Denzel Washington is hired to protect a 10 year old girl, Dakota Fanning, from kidnapping. Despite his best efforts, the little girl is kidnapped. Washington takes his revenge by killing all the kidnappers.

Any adult, but especially parents, immediately understand Washington's rage over the kidnapping and his obsessive desire for revenge: Washington tracks down and eliminates all the kidnappers, one by one. His methods however, are brutal beyond description and that's what is so hard to stomach, at least for me.

The acting is acceptable. Dakota Fanning is charming as a 10 year old. I would have liked to see Washington emote just a bit more. He shows his natural warmth only in scenes with Fanning. The two actors who play the parents, Marc Anthony and Radha Mitchell, are deserving of special mention. Their roles were not large but they filled them admirably.

I didn't feel that I could give this movie more than a 5 because of the excess and florid violence.

AVOID THIS MOVIE AT ALL COSTS! IT IS GARBAGE. IT IS PORNOGRAPHIC IN THE TRUE SENSE OF THE WORD.

Killing Bill is about blood and guts and killing. My repeated reaction while watching the movie was unmitigated disgust.

Killing Bill is pornographic. This is the most accurate description. The movie is offensive to people with normative values.

Killing Bill has no plot, no character development and what little dialogue there is, is completely forgettable.

The movie opens with Thurman killing another woman while the victim's 6 year daughter watches. Unbelievably, from that point onwards, it actually gets worse.

Killing Bill was thought up by Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino while they were making Pulp Fiction in 1994. Pulp Fiction is a violent movie. Killing Bill is a thousand times worse.

Thurman clearly enjoys her sadistic role in Killing Bill which leads me to think that she needs professional help. Tarantino should join her. I keep asking myself: What prompted these two people to invest so much of themselves in a movie that glorifies death by decapitation and the cutting off of limbs.

I won't go to another movie in which Uma Thurman appears or that Tarantino directs!

The public and the reviewers liked Killing Bill and its box office success is indicative of the "herd mentality" of American film goers. No matter how bad, how revolting, how repulsive or how disgusting a movie is, American film goers will flock to see it if the movie is properly marketed; they are totally undiscriminating. Tell them that watching someone get disemboweled is "good entertainment" and they will flock to the theaters.

Avoid this movie. I expect that the sequel, Killing Bill 2, is the same.