Has all the coolness and daring and wit through which Tarantino made his name. It delivers what we expected, and packs some shocking punches on top.
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10/17/03
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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
A labor of love, but not entirely one of respect, and yet it still manages to entertain even the jaded fanboy contingent.
10/17/03
I would argue that, in a bizarre way, Mr. Tarantino empowers women as no action-genre director before him ever has.
10/16/03
Top CriticVisually inventive, strangely beautiful and poetic, in a bare-bones, samurai-warrior way. A movie that, while dealing with death, is joyfully alive with surprises.
10/16/03
Quentin Tarantino is a joyous filmmaker, one whose love of film is clear in every frame of Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and one whose euphoria is absolutely infectious.
10/16/03
Uma Thurman's performance breaks down the emotional barriers that often keep an audience at a distance.
10/15/03
Tarantino is totally in charge at every second. He knows exactly what he’s doing, exactly what he wants to convey from moment to moment.
10/15/03
Cinematically exhilerating... This is the most elated action filmmaking I’ve seen in ages.
10/15/03
It may not be great, but it is if not true filmmaking, very, very true movie making.
10/15/03
When people tell you it's bloody, they're not exaggerating. Unfortunately, there isn't a whole lot more. (And I loved Pulp Fiction)
10/15/03
I can’t wait for Volume 2.
10/14/03
A giddy, gory, beautifully mounted trash spectacle … at least so far.
10/14/03
A hyper-violent, hyper-gory, kung-fu grindhouse flick. And there’s nothing at all wrong with that.
10/14/03
Glorious cinematic pulp.
10/14/03
Kill Bill Vol. 1 is one entertaining and stylish thrill ride, no more, no less.
10/14/03
A brash, bloody and simply exhilarating revenge melodrama and stylistic indulgence inspired by an imagination that spent thousands of hours absorbing pulp paperbacks, comic books, 'Kung Fu,' the mythology of Bruce Lee and Hong Kong chop-socky epics while
10/14/03
A movie of confident, professional showmanship; it uses the screen as a conduit to directly transfer the enthusiasm its creator feels to the audience, delivering giddy energy.
10/14/03
Despite all the cinematic tricks employed in this film, it ends up being a just another action film at heart. As such, it is good, but not among the best of the genre.
10/14/03
This is one dangerously fun and ridiculously well made samurai homage meets pop culture pastiche that you’ll kill yourself for missing if you even dare try.
10/13/03
Despite the (for some) outrageous amount of violence, Tarantino manages to stage these fight scenes with panache, opting for a tongue-in-cheek tone that elicits more chuckles than gasps of horror.
10/13/03
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