Stars: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, Julie Dreyfus, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Michael Parks, Sonny Chiba

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Summary: The Bride was once part of a group of top female assassins called the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. When she realises that she's pregnant she decides to leave, assume a new identity and get married. This does not sit well with Bill, her former boss. On her wedding day, he along with the other members of the group attacks the wedding party leaving them for dead... The Bride awakes from being in a coma for five years and sets out to get her revenge...

Quentin Tarantino returns to the director's chair with KILL BILL after a six-year hiatus. 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: VOLUME 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.

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Reviewed by: philreyn
Posted on October 11, 2005 12:26 PM

Not your typical Quentin Tarentino type movie in that it is packed with martial arts type combat, but very typical in the multiple character and varying time lines sense. There is also a very strange section that gives the historical past of one 'Bill's hench people, in a cartoon format! Part one of this double concentrates on a story build up of why Bill sets his team of assassins, and how she begins her revenge. Strange, gory movie but fans of Tarantino will love it, and will start saving their pennies for the second helping. Definitely an 18 certificate!

Reviewed by: davybozal24-7
Posted on May 17, 2006 7:43 PM

This is Quentin Tarantino at his goriest bloody best and he definitely
hits the mark . His 4th and probably his most memorable groundbreaking venture into what could be described as his infinite
love of all things samurai ! Kill Bill Volume 1 is a tale of betrayal , and
ultimately bloodthirsty revenge . Uma Thurman plays the bride who after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding , emerges from a coma 4 years later seeking answers and ultimately revenge .
David Carradine plays the character ' Bill ' with sleazy gusto and surely deserves to get his comeuppance , but first his deathsquad !

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"The Bride" (Uma Thurman) gets her satisfaction--and so do we--in Quentin Tarantino's "roaring rampage of revenge", Kill Bill, Vol. 2. Where Vol. 1 was a hyper-kinetic tribute to the Asian chop-socky grindhouse flicks that have been thoroughly cross-referenced in Tarantino's film-loving brain, Vol. 2--not a sequel, but Part Two of a breathtakingly cinematic epic--is Tarantino's contemporary martial-arts Western, fuelled by iconic images, music and themes lifted from any source that Tarantino holds dear, from the action-packed cheapies of William Witney (one of several filmmakers Tarantino gratefully honours in the closing credits) to the spaghetti epics of Sergio Leone. Tarantino doesn't copy so much as elevate the genres he loves, and the entirety of Kill Billis clearly the product of a singular artistic vision, even as it careens from one influence to another. Violence erupts with dynamic impact, but unlike Vol. 1, this slower grand finale revels in Tarantino's trademark dialogue and loopy longueurs, reviving the career of David Carradine (who plays Bill for what he is: a snake charmer), and giving Thurman's Bride an outlet for maternal love and well-earned happiness. Has any actress endured so much for the sake of a unique collaboration? As the credits remind us, "The Bride" was jointly created by "Q&U", and she's become an unforgettable heroine in a pair of delirious movie-movies (Vol. 3 awaits, some 15 years hence) that Tarantino fans will study and love for decades to come. --Jeff Shannon

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Featurette - 1. Making-of, Music Videos: The 5, Teaser Trailers for KILL BILL VOLS 1
Year:	2003
Release Date:	April 19, 2004
Runtime:	111 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B E D 881273
Label:	Miramax Home Entertainment
Keywords:	Action, Bill, Kill, General, Adventure, Vol
Genre:	Action/Adventure