I didn't leave the cinema aching to see Volume Two (out in February), though I'm interested to learn how things work out.
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05/07/08
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
85 %
Reviews Counted: 213 Fresh: 181 Rotten:32 Average Rating: 7.7/10
Consensus:
Kill Bill is nothing more than a highly stylized revenge flick. But what style!
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
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 into two volumes by Miramax in order to ensure that Tarantino's vision would not be... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Chiaki Kuriyama, Sonny Chiba
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Lawrence Bender, Quentin Tarantino
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Lawrence Bender, Quentin Tarantino
Reviews
It's all bang, bang; no kiss, kiss. But this is still bravura film-making from a prodigious talent, and Thurman may yet prove its saving grace.
06/24/06
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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.
10/17/03
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
It lacks the trademark snappy dialogue but delivers fantastic fight scenes, a cool soundtrack and a dizzying array of cinematic tricks.
10/07/03
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A barely watchable mess, a tangled montage of fashion gloss streaked in gore, a cocktail party in an abattoir.
10/07/03
The characters are vivid enough to rise above [Tarantino's] cinematic nerdiness. Thurman is shockingly good.
10/02/03
A blood-stained love letter to exploitation movies that seems to be missing a few pages.
05/24/03
Top Critic
A strange, fun and densely textured work that gets better as it goes along.
05/07/08
Top Critic
Even more gory and adolescent than its models, which explains both the fun and the unpleasantness of this globe-trotting romp.
05/07/08
Kill Bill is a temple of worship -- a devout hymn of praise to crap cinema (which isn't always crappy).
08/04/07
Kill Bill is pretty stupid, but there are also moments of beauty and brilliance.
07/14/07
Unfolding as a book the film is conceived in chapters, each boasting the look and pulse of a specific genre; as expected of Tarantino, there are references to music, literature, fashion, and above all movies and pop culture, both American and foreign.
12/20/06
A movie that, without Uma, would have ultimately been a stylistic masterpiece, but never the stirring epic that it is shaping up to be.
03/09/05
Perhaps the funniest thing about Kill Bill: Volume One is the realization that this ode to ultraviolence and Uma Thurman's feet is probably Quentin Tarantino's most personal film.
03/05/05
Volume One is, above all, a parade of fantastic fight scenes, each one bloodier than the one that came before ... bloody in the Looney-Toons/Monty-Python sense.
01/15/05
There 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
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