Kill Bill vol.1 (NR),
Oct 10, 2003 Synopsis: First movie in a two-part series. After surviving an assasination attempt by her former boss, the bride (Ema Turman) seeks revenge. She will battle his band of deadly assasins including: Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, Vivica A. Fox and Michael Madsen.
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Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Sonny Chiba Director: Quentin Tarantino,
Producer: Quentin Tarantino, Lawrence Bender, E. Bennett Walsh Writer: Quentin Tarantino
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Though the plot may be as thin as rice paper, the
moviejunkie
Mar 16, 06
Though the plot may be as thin as rice paper, the action is as solid as steel. Trantino pays homage to every style from kung-fu westerns, to matrix style slow-mo.
Unconventional camera angles, edits and titling keep you guessing what will happen next. Even though the outcome is a given, that the heroine will Kill Bill.
"...the great disappointment of...is that so much
moviejunkie
Mar 16, 06
"...the great disappointment of...is that so much of it is so unsurprising."
Quentin Tarantino is a stylish celluloid craftsman
moviejunkie
Mar 16, 06
Quentin Tarantino is a stylish celluloid craftsman. Telling a visual story isn't as important to him as toying with garish cinematic images, and he's besotted with the pain and perversity of violence. That's why this pulpy, self-indulgent film so closely resembles an intense video game.
Uma Thurman stars as The pregnant Bride, who is betrayed on her wedding day by the titular Bill (heard-but-barely-seen David Carradine) who kills everyone at the nuptials. Left for dead, miraculously, she recovers and vows revenge against Bill and his Assassination Squad. Not to be confused with "Charlie's Angels," they're Bill's butt-kickers. First, she slaughters the Viper (Viveca A. Fox), who has become a Pasadena housewife with a four year-old daughter. Then it's off to Tokyo to slice-and-dice O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), the white-robed yakuza gang leader, in a moonlit, snow-drenched Japanese garden. And the hitwoman has more names on her list.
Obviously influenced by Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, Tarantino has fashioned a vengeance-propelled, chop-socky eastern filled with pop culture references lifted from Japanese, Italian and Hong-Kong B-films as well as American TV. Originally shot as one movie, it's been divided in half with a cliffhanger, and Vol. 2 is scheduled for a February release. This serial concept is not without precedent. In the early 1970s, Richard Lester's "The Three Musketeers" was bifurcated, as opposed to the back-to-back shooting of "Lord of the Rings" and "Matrix."
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" is an action-packed, excessive 8, but don't buy a ticket unless you're ready to be drenched in a bloodbath. It's recommended for fighting enthusiasts and die-hard film-buffs who will appreciate the audacious allusions.
