Takes Tarantino's trademark brand of excessive violence in an over-the-top direction that mimics the fun but cheesy kung fu revenge films of yesteryear.
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10/21/03
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!
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
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
Reviews for Kill Bill Vol. 1
61 - 80 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
It is the distilled essence of everything that kicks a** about the extravagantly violent genres of Kung fu, Samurai, and Anime
10/20/03
An indulgent, outlandish, and thoroughly entertaining ballet of blood.
10/19/03
Hell hath no fury like a Tarantino heroine scorned.
10/19/03
Quentin Tarantino's most wild-*** effort yet.
10/17/03
After nearly two hours of bloodshed (no matter how artfully presented), Tarantino owes us a little more than a "to be continued . . ." tease.
10/17/03
Ripping off and rearranging moves, ideas, and codes from seemingly countless sources, Kill Bill is a careful film that looks glib, a nuanced film that looks shallow.
10/17/03
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
Visually 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
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