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Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

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Reviews Counted:216

Fresh:184

Rotten:32

Average Rating:7.7/10

Consensus: Kill Bill is nothing more than a highly stylized revenge flick. But what style!

Rated: R [See Full Rating] For strong bloody violence, language and some sexual content

Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:Oct 10, 2003 Wide

Box Office: $69,978,747

Synopsis: After a six-year hiatus, Quentin Tarantino returns to the director's chair with KILL BILL. The movie proves once again that he is a hyperactive visionary and the master of cinematic coolness. Split... After a six-year hiatus, Quentin Tarantino returns to the director's chair with KILL BILL. The movie proves once again that he is a hyperactive visionary and the master of cinematic coolness. Split into two volumes by Miramax in order to ensure that Tarantino's vision would not be compromised (and presumably to sell more tickets), KILL BILL: VOL. 1 tells the first half of the sprawling story, which is quite simple at first glance. A female assassin, referred to as "The Bride" (Uma Thurman), is attacked on her wedding day. Dead are her soon-to-be husband and unborn child. However, she doesn't die. Four years later, she wakes up from a coma looking for revenge. Although her ultimate target is her former boss, Bill (David Carradine), it's quite clear that The Bride is saving the best for last. And before she can track him down, she must methodically take out the minions who ruined her life. VOLUME 1's targets include Vernita Green/Copperhead (Vivica A. Fox), Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus), and the heartless O-Ren Ishii/Cottonmouth (Lucy Liu). Using a blessed sword handmade by Hattori Hanzo (Sonny Chiba), The Bride begins her relentless assault. Turning up the style and energy levels that he kept under a threshold with 1997's JACKIE BROWN, Tarantino's obvious glee and reverence for the underground kung fu action pictures of the '70s, and Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, makes for a stunning visual spectacle. Employing split screens, slow-motion, an anime sequence, and his trademark ultra-hip musical selections, Tarantino's film dares viewers to be unimpressed. [More]

Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Chiaki Kuriyama

Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Chiaki Kuriyama, Sonny Chiba, Gordon Liu, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Julie Dreyfus

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Lawrence Bender, Quentin Tarantino
Composer: RZA
Studio: Miramax Films

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  • Kill Bill Volume 1
  • The acclaimed fourth film from groundbreaking writer and director Quentin Tarantino (PULP FICTION, JACKIE BROWN), KILL BILL VOLUME 1 stars Uma Thurman (PULP FICTION), Lucy Liu (CHARLIE'S ANGELS, CHICAGO), and Vivica A. Fox (TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME) in an astonishing, action-packed thriller about brutal betrayal and an epic vendetta! Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, The Bride (Thurman) emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback ... with a vengeance! Having been gunned down by her former boss (David Carradine) and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight she didn't start but is determined to finish! Loaded with explosive action and outrageous humor, it's a must-see motion picture event that has critics everywhere raving!
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    Reviews for Kill Bill Vol. 1

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    Quentin Tarantino's long awaited fourth film finds the pop culture carnivore of filmmaking reinvigorating cinema a second time over with a single-plot-trajectory revenge movie that utilizes samurai sword action with a shifting score of infectious guitar d

    Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
    04/19/09
    Cole Smithey
    Cole Smithey
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    N/R

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    Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
    10/18/08
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    Something borrowed, something bloody. [Blu-ray]

    Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
    09/22/08
    Peter Canavese
    Peter Canavese
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    Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
    08/07/08
    Mark Halverson
    Mark Halverson
    Sacramento News & Review

    A strange, fun and densely textured work that gets better as it goes along.

    Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
    05/07/08
    Todd McCarthy
    Todd McCarthy
    Variety
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    Even more gory and adolescent than its models, which explains both the fun and the unpleasantness of this globe-trotting romp.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment 1 Comment
    05/07/08
    Jonathan Rosenbaum
    Jonathan Rosenbaum
    Chicago Reader
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    I didn't leave the cinema aching to see Volume Two (out in February), though I'm interested to learn how things work out.

    Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
    05/07/08
    Philip French
    Philip French
    Observer [UK]

    Kill Bill is a temple of worship -- a devout hymn of praise to crap cinema (which isn't always crappy).

    Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
    08/04/07
    Rob Gonsalves
    Rob Gonsalves
    eFilmCritic.com

    Kill Bill is pretty stupid, but there are also moments of beauty and brilliance.

    Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
    07/14/07
    Joe Lozito
    Joe Lozito
    Big Picture Big Sound

    Unfolding as a book the film is conceived in chapters, each boasting the look and pulse of a specific genre; as expected of Tarantino, there are references to music, literature, fashion, and above all movies and pop culture, both American and foreign.

    Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
    12/20/06
    Emanuel Levy
    Emanuel Levy
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    It's all bang, bang; no kiss, kiss. But this is still bravura film-making from a prodigious talent, and Thurman may yet prove its saving grace.

    Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
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    04/02/05
    Garth Franklin
    Garth Franklin
    Dark Horizons

    A movie that, without Uma, would have ultimately been a stylistic masterpiece, but never the stirring epic that it is shaping up to be.

    Full Review Source: Bangitout.com | comment Comment
    03/09/05
    Jordan Hiller
    Jordan Hiller
    Bangitout.com

    Perhaps the funniest thing about Kill Bill: Volume One is the realization that this ode to ultraviolence and Uma Thurman's feet is probably Quentin Tarantino's most personal film.

    Full Review Source: NYC Film Critic | comment Comment
    03/05/05
    Ethan Alter
    Ethan Alter
    NYC Film Critic

    Volume One is, above all, a parade of fantastic fight scenes, each one bloodier than the one that came before ... bloody in the Looney-Toons/Monty-Python sense.

    Full Review Source: Looking Closer | comment 1 Comment
    01/15/05
    Jeffrey Overstreet
    Jeffrey Overstreet
    Looking Closer

    There is no ironic overlay in Tarantino’s movies, no 'commenting' on the pop schlock he’s replicating. He simply wants to remake in his own way the kinds of movies he’s always loved, and he’s about as uncynical as a movie geek can be.

    Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
    08/07/04
    Peter Rainer
    Peter Rainer
    New York Magazine
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    Kill Bill isn't human. It's cinema as cinema. Tarantino is like a hyper, too-bright child, worrying you for your attention, jumping from thought to thought in his brain

    Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS) | comment Comment
    07/07/04
    Jake Euker
    Jake Euker
    F5 (Wichita, KS)

    Blood spews from bodies like fountains of Chinese fireworks throughout the movie.

    Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) | comment Comment
    06/22/04
    Judith Egerton
    Judith Egerton
    Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

    It may be violent but it also has a joy for life and music and movies.

    Full Review Source: Reno Gazette-Journal | comment Comment
    04/15/04
    Mark Robison
    Mark Robison
    Reno Gazette-Journal

    It may be violent but it also has a joy for life and music and movies.

    Full Review Source: Reno Gazette-Journal | comment Comment
    04/15/04
    Mark Robison
    Mark Robison
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