A strange, fun and densely textured work that gets better as it goes along.
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05/07/08
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Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:31
Rotten:9
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: Kill Bill is nothing more than a highly stylized revenge flick. But what style!
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... [More]
Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Chiaki Kuriyama
Director: Quentin Tarantino
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Reviews for Kill Bill Vol. 1
Top CriticEven more gory and adolescent than its models, which explains both the fun and the unpleasantness of this globe-trotting romp.
05/07/08
Top CriticThere 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.
08/07/04
Top CriticI would argue that, in a bizarre way, Mr. Tarantino empowers women as no action-genre director before him ever has.
10/16/03
Top CriticSimultaneously a spectacular act of movie-making and a slight movie.
10/12/03
Top CriticKill Bill is one long yakkety-yak about Tarantino's passions. He's the samurai who won't shut up.
10/11/03
Top CriticDelivered with such high panache and brio, it's mesmerizing.
10/10/03
Top CriticHas matched, if not eclipsed, the power and scope of 1994's Pulp Fiction.
10/10/03
Top CriticWhatever Bill's limitations, style isn't one of them.
10/10/03
Top CriticNot only is this the work of a major and vital talent in full bloom, it's the most thrillingly entertaining American movie so far this year.
10/10/03
Top CriticIt boggles the mind that after six years of silence, all Tarantino has to offer is this garbage.
10/10/03
Top CriticAn eye-popping, blood-soaked, ingeniously choreographed thriller and Hong Kong homage that ultimately adds up to ... not much.
10/10/03
Top CriticA tribute both scrupulously authentic and wildly original.
10/10/03
Top CriticA maddeningly uneven spaghetti Eastern that's well worth seeing for his technical mastery, even as it challenges you with the geeky auteur's boundless self-indulgence.
10/10/03
Top CriticThere's a lot to admire in Kill Bill, and a lot that should have been lopped off like the arms and legs and scalps that go flying.
10/10/03
Top CriticDespite a draggy section and a problem with proportion, Kill Bill bristles with such vitality it hardly matters that -- at least at the halfway point -- it feels inconsequential.
10/10/03
Top CriticKill Bill may be mindless fun, but it is the most mindless fun in memory.
10/10/03
Top CriticThe violence, blood levels -- and just plain cheesy gore -- in this film are extreme, but Tarantino's sharp dialogue and expert editing leaves you breathless.
10/10/03
Top CriticThe year's most important unimportant movie.
10/10/03
Top CriticKill Bill ranks just behind Pulp Fiction in terms of strutting the director's storytelling gifts.
10/10/03
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