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      Kill Bill: Vol. 1

      2003, Action/Mystery & thriller, 1h 50m

      238 Reviews 250,000+ Ratings

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      Kill Bill is admittedly little more than a stylish revenge thriller -- albeit one that benefits from a wildly inventive surfeit of style. Read critic reviews

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      A former assassin, known simply as The Bride (Uma Thurman), wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill (David Carradine) attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she vows to get even with every person who contributed to the loss of her unborn child, her entire wedding party, and four years of her life. After devising a hit list, The Bride sets off on her quest, enduring unspeakable injury and unscrupulous enemies.

      • Rating: R (Some Sexual Content|Language|Strong Bloody Violence)

      • Genre: Action, Mystery & thriller

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Quentin Tarantino

      • Producer: Lawrence Bender

      • Writer: Quentin Tarantino

      • Release Date (Theaters):  wide

      • Release Date (Streaming):

      • Box Office (Gross USA): $70.1M

      • Runtime:

      • Distributor: Miramax Films

      • Production Co: A Band Apart, Super Cool ManChu, Miramax

      • Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby A, SDDS, DTS, Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR

      Cast & Crew

      Uma Thurman
      Lucy Liu
      Vivica A. Fox
      Michael Madsen
      Daryl Hannah
      Sonny Chiba
      Chiaki Kuriyama
      Julie Dreyfus
      Jun Kunimura
      Akaji Maro
      Bob Weinstein
      Harvey Weinstein
      Erica Steinberg
      E. Bennett Walsh
      Robert Richardson
      Sally Menke
      RZA
      Yohei Tanada
      David Wasco
      Daniel Bradford
      Jiuping Cao
      Luyi Liu
      Minoru Nishida
      Yoshihito Akatsuka
      Kumiko Ogawa

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      • Jul 20, 2016
        This is one of Quinten Tarintino's best films. It's awesome gory action sequences are some of the best action scenes ever in my opinion. What this movie lacks in storyline it makes up for with aesthetic and action.
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      • Apr 06, 2016
        Pretty good revenge thriller that's full of action that is good but gets too silly at the end, I liked the story even though it's nothing new but it was acted well, The OTT blood was stupid at times and it was hard to take things seriously, But it's fun and entertaining most of the time.
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      • Feb 09, 2016
        If there's one thing we've learned about Quentin Tarantino as a screenwriter and director is that one should never expect a typical movie that fits the stereotypes of the genre exactly - or even remotely. We had it with Reservoir Dogs, a heist film where we never see the heist, and with both Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds - two more films which take what is typical and throw it aside. After multiple views, I still say that Kill Bill Vol. 1 is by far the stronger half of the duo. The entirety of Volume 1 is very much a build up that never fully stops, which is unique even to revenge flicks as they usually ebb and flow with a lot of changes to the pace. Not so here. Here was have Tarantino at his flashiest but supplemented with a reservoir of substance which endures throughout the film. The colours and look of the film are all very exaggerated and oversampled, i'm not going to lie, but with such a masterfully woven story, the two go together like Eggs and Bacon, although I doubt highly that Samurai swords are edible. The brilliance that lies in Kill Bill is that it doesn't overreach itself. It's a revenge flick with a lot of different elements, but it doesn't try to be something else, or pass itself off as a grand odyssey. Likewise, Tarantino as always adds fantastic dialogue which especially helps the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad during the backstory segmints of the movie. Quentin doesn't just want to make films seriously, he also knows that he can also have fun during the process which is something that a few directors twice his age at the time of Kill Bill have yet to understand or even grasp at it's base sense. Quentin's casting choices for Kill Bill don't drop the bar either - Uma Thurman returns to the "Tarantinoverse" as The Bride, after previously playing Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction, as does Michael Madsen after previously appearing in Reservoir Dogs as the sociopathic Mr Blonde. Lucy Liu, Darryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Fox all play fellow members of the Deadly Vipers and succeed in establishing that O-Ren Ishii, Elle Driver and Vernita Green are all worthy of the "badass mofo" informal title which comes with being a former Deadly Viper. And finally, Bill, who has very little screen time in this first volume, but is masterfully portrayed by David Carradine who seems to be just as good as his half-brother at portraying a maniacal but composed deadly killer. Kill Bill is at it's root, a revenge flick, but at the same time so much more than just that term. It explores territory many others haven't, is loaded with memorable scenes and characters, and a piece of cinematic paradise in terms of the showdown between The Bride and the Crazy 88's.
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      • Jan 07, 2016
        This is cartoony, kick-ass, inventive action filmmaking at its most engaging. It is the best of Tarantino's films I've seen thus far. Hilarious and violent in equal measure, Kill Bill is a simple revenge thriller dressed in gorgeous colors and stylized action. Just pure fun. Rating: 84
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