Kill Bill: Volume 1 is essentially a pop culture wanker’s failed multimedia experiment, a vacuous junk heap of dorky gags and riffs, violent anime and offensive slapstick.
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10/08/03
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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!
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
Kill Bill may have little on its mind besides pop extravagance, yet you can feel the movie tracing a transition in the world -- from West to East, from male to female rule.
10/08/03
Top CriticFun and smart, but undeniably thin.
10/08/03
Top CriticSee the film if you love the movies--it's the old iron for a new day.
10/08/03
The dialogue is as sharp as the swords used to slice off the mountains of body parts.
10/08/03
Half-a-movie at full-price -- it's annoyingly unsatisfying. Also self-indulgent, sadistic, juvenile, pretty to look at, and empty as a beer can on my front porch.
10/08/03
As a whole, Kill Bill might be an entertaining product, but, after seeing Volume 1, I was insulted.
10/07/03
Top CriticIt lacks the trademark snappy dialogue but delivers fantastic fight scenes, a cool soundtrack and a dizzying array of cinematic tricks.
10/07/03
Guaranteed to blow you away.
10/07/03
... inventive, exciting, ballsy, violent, entertaining, stylized and brilliant.
10/07/03
A barely watchable mess, a tangled montage of fashion gloss streaked in gore, a cocktail party in an abattoir.
10/07/03
Kill Bill is, at long last, the revolution Pulp Fiction fans hoped Jackie Brown was going to be ... leaves the stomach turning, the tongue lolling and the mind reeling.
10/06/03
This isn't just the movie you've been waiting for from Quentin Tarantino. This is the movie you've been waiting for, period.
10/06/03
Awesome! Breathtaking! Tarantino shows off his libido and his id.
10/06/03
This is the ultimate movie for kung-fu drive-in geeks ...
10/06/03
Top CriticKill Bill: Vol. 1 is Quentin Tarantino set on '11.'
10/05/03
The characters are vivid enough to rise above [Tarantino's] cinematic nerdiness. Thurman is shockingly good.
10/02/03
The film is hugely watchable.
10/02/03
Top CriticPicture Monty Python's Black Knight sketch spread over the course of an entire movie.
10/01/03
Weinstein seems to be letting Tarantino have his way with a double release, turning one potentially great film into two flashy mediocrities.
09/30/03
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