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Summary: Good, but will be too long after Vol. 2
Review: Very good movie, with various styles and good script. Another good film by Tarantino!
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Summary: The madness of Tarantino
Review: After watching this film again yesterday, and remembering watching it in the theater, I simply asked my self, "why wasn't this nominated for an oscar?". I meant Quentin Tarantino has proved hes oscar worthy, why wasn't this worthy? It is indeed the ultimate Kung Fu movie. He mixes this movie up with a little "Return of the Street Fighter",a little "Game of Death", and much more Kung Fu movies. Quentin should be very proud for his masterpiece in new age Kung Fu movies. Finally no more Jackie Chan or Jet Lee in the flick to make it a Kung Fu movie.
This film is very bloody and gorey, which may be hard to see. It was really hard to see for me, but I couldn't get my eyes off the masterpiece Quentin brought to the cinema. It has great cinemantography and awesome fight scenes. The story goes as the bride(Uma Thurman)is seeking revenge becuase Bill and his posse went to the brides wedding and killed every single person and put a bullet through her head, but her heart kept beating and the bride is then trapt in a coma for 4 years when she wakes up. She goes to Japan to find #1 on her list Oren-Ishi(Lucy Lui)It is the ultimate revenge movie. I have looked over the features in this dvd and there not all bad, but don't buy this, wait till kill bill volume 2 comes out and then they'll be a pack. I bought this film simply because I couldn't wait, after watching it in the theater I couldn't wait not to buy it. This dvd has a behind the scenes, and it has the origin of kill bill. How on the "Pulpfiction" set Tarantino and Uma Thurman how they were talking about how they wanted the movie to look like. It is a great featurrete. It has a music video from the 5,6,7,8's. This dvd also includes Tarantino's trailers for Resivor Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Vol. 1 teaser, kill bill vol.1 bootleg trailer, and the teaser for kill bill vol.2. If you haven't seen this film, its a must.
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Summary: Much better than I was expecting
Review: Timing is everything -- as this movie proves repeatedly. From an opening scene where the dialogue is perfectly timed with a gunshot, to the well choreographed sword fights, the timing of everything coming together for this movie is perfect. This is not the type of movie I would normally go to see -- and I didn't see it in the theaters -- but I was intrigued by the title and had been looking forward to the opportunity to rent it for awhile. This is one I'll definitely buy, now that I've seen it. All aspects of it were much better than I was expecting. The action comes at you so fast, it was over before I knew it, and it certainly didn't feel like I'd been sitting there for nearly 2 hours watching it. What I'd heard and read about the violence was certainly true -- the gory aspects of it are so overdone, they're actually humorous, and don't really feel like you're watching that much violence. Now I've just got to count down the days until Friday, when Vol. 2 comes out. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned on her wedding day
Review: Quentin Tarantino movies have always been a guilty pleasure for me. 'Kill Bill Vol. 1' was only his fourth, following 'Reservoir Dogs,' 'Pulp Fiction' and 'Jackie Brown,' but once again Tarantino's mad genius is evident in the no-holds-barred, hyperkinetic style of his moviemaking. Just like the Wachowskis with the Matrix series, Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' is his 'nod and wink' to the genres he loves (e.g. Shaw Bros, Chambara, Anime, Spaghetti Western and Takashi Miike). Uma Thurman portrayed 'The Bride,' who went on a whirlwind of death and destruction when she was wronged by the movie's titular character, Bill (played by Kung Fu's David Carradine). While the plot is one of simple revenge, we cannot help but root for our femme fatale as she dispatches her various foes in her quest of vigilante justice. The outcome is never in doubt, but it sure is fun watching the journey.
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Summary: JUST FOR US...THANKS Q.T.
Review: Since 1993, when I first saw Reservoir Dogs, to last night when I added this gem to my collection, I have been a die hard Tarantino fan. And KillBill feels like it was made just for us diehards, and movie geeks.
Its been reviewed to death here so I will just say ...
Thanks Q.T., we love ya.......
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Summary: kick ass tarintino
Review: woooooo this is one of teh better movies i have ever saw not only is it intellegent its kickass tarintino. its basically a noon stop fight scene with monty python blood spurting in every direction and. i love tarintino and this just kicks ass theres just no other way to put ot
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Summary: Killer
Review: Tarantino is like fine wine...he gets better with age. He is the coolest, hippest, most complete film director of the last 50 years. This film rocks out.
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Summary: Probably the best 'homage' film made
Review: If "Kill Bill" is nothing else, it definitely is an homage movie, as it really can be difficult to fit into any genre. I suppose Action would be the most likely suspect, followed by Western, then Samurai, then Kung-Fu, and even Suspense, Thriller, and Drama. Mostly, though, it is Tarantino having a blast in honoring the films he grew up watching. Yes, we definintely know this now, as the DVD has a 'making of' featurette in which he tells us so. (Hence the appearance of Sonny Chiba in the Okinawa chapter). It would not be fair to simply call this a tribute film, however, as Tarantino by combining the genres and styles has created something altogether new. What is marvelous about the film, though, is how the melting pot adds a good deal of comedy to the movie as well. While the Crazy 88 is being torn apart by The Bride (brilliantly performed by Uma Thurman), there is an almost comic-book like appearance to the scenes. True, that is your kung-fu aspect at work, but like so many of those kung-fu movies, they were quite humorous in the impossible amount of carnage that can be exacted by one lone warrior. By the way, there is also a gorgeous tribute to Anime as well, done through a flashback 'origin' story about Lucy Liu's beginnings. She too is amazing in her role and the majority of the movie deals with her. Thank goodness, too, as she is a joy to watch on screen and Tarantino obviously knew her talents and potential when he wrote her part. A bit of a warning, though. This movie is definitely NOT for kids. I don't care how mature they might think they are, please use some discretion before screening this to a youngster. There are some very disturbing images and themes, despite the afore-mentioned cartoon-like quality to some of the scenes. Some of the other scenes certainly are not as amusing. Still, if you're into the genres or tribute movies, if you enjoy quality cinema and don't mind a bit (okay, a lot) of bloodshed, this truly is the movie to own. There are so many things to like and so many film classes that could spawn off of this movie alone. Enjoy!
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Summary: I don't understand why this movie gets such good reviews
Review: I saw this film when it was in theaters. I don't understand why so many people think this film is so great. It reminds me a geat deal of an older movie "Falling Down", but with an angry white woman as the lead instead of an angry white male. Being a non-white in this movie is a death sentence. Umma Thurman's character makes it a point to kill or mame just about every non-white in her path. I walked away from this movie wondering if Tarrintino doesn't have some serious issues with the non-whites of the world.
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Summary: Sort of allright
Review: What purports to be a highly trained assassin is left in a comatose state in a hospital for four years after her husband and her friends are killed violently in front of her. She decides to take revenge by killing all those involved in her husbands and friends death. Up to this point things are reasonably rational. We only know her name as the bride and she is played by Uma Thurman. One of the main participants in her death, and thus a target for revenge, is a woman called Cotton Mouth who runs the Japanese criminal underworld. Uma decides that to kill Cotton Mouth she will need a special weapon which is, a sword. Now I thought that Lord Kitchener at the battle of Ombaduran (1898) had demonstrated that bladed weapons came in a rather distant second to modern fire arms. Kitcheners army lost one soldier to a mild stomach upset whilst his machine guns killed 20,000 Sudanese in a little over an hour. Not only are swords very much the weapon of yesterday they are just so bulky. If you wander down the street you can see them and they rather telescope what is about to go down. However in a film like this we are not in the real world. What we are doing is to try to create a legend and in legends you had swords. King Arthur had one that he drew from a stone. The King of Vietnam had one given to him by a sacred turtle. The legend is of course one that comes from countless Hong Kong flicks which this is really either a tribute to or derivative off. Uma, sword on her back riding on a motor bike, is able to head to a restaurant in which the hated Cotton Mouth is having lunch with her eight (8) body guards. Oddly enough the restaurant sees no real problem with eight people entering their premises wearing black masks equipped with swords. Perhaps it is just how things are in Japan. Uma who is meant to be a trained assassin could of course used a sniper rifle, placed a bomb in the restaurant or poisoned the food. She however cuts the arm off Cotton Mouth's secretary and challenges the rest to a fight. One would have thought that one possible problem with this strategy was that her proposed victim could simply wander off out the back door during the excitement. Not to mention the fact that Uma could be killed by the overwhelming numbers or be caught by the police. These are not real considerations for her and she is then involved in a frantic fight with Cotton Mouth's poorly coordinated body guards. Cotton Mouth also seems to have hired her protectors from idiots are us. None of them have fire arms or are able to work in a rational or systematic way. One would have thought that in a well regulated country such as Japan a fight involving eight people with samurai swords might be the sort of thing which would attract police attention. In fact the death of eight people in such circumstances would be one of the more significant events in any large modern city. Not only do the fleeing restaurant patrons not call the police but another forty or so people wearing masks and carrying samurai swords turn up as reinforcements. Again one would think that this is the sort of thing which lead to at least one police car wandering by to see what was happening. Of course however the epic fight goes on and then there is the final confrontation between Uma and Cotton Mouth. In real life Cotton Mouth would possibly simply slip out the back of the restaurant and wander down to a gun shop to by an Uzi. However she stays around to be involved in one of those climatic type duel things. And of course the reason for this is that in all those Hong Kong films you always had sword or Kung Foo fights. But of course films like the Shaolin Monastery were set in a time before the use of gunpowder. In an earlier scene Uma kills another woman responsible for the attack which left her in hospital. She turns up to the woman's house and has a knife fight. Now this is a dumb way for an assassin to act. If you leave blood at a scene nowdays the police pick up samples and if you get away it is still enough evidence to arrest you later. That is why people who do actual contract killings use firearms and try not to leave much to indicate who did it such as traces of their blood or body tissue. But again this film is a tribute to the Kung Fu genre in which the revenge motive is played out by a series of personal confrontations. Despite the fact that the high number of absurdities makes it difficult for one to watch the film without annoyance it sort of works. Uma looks great and yellow motor bike outfits will probably be the all the go for a while. The dialogue is one of Tarantino's strong points what there is, is central to the creation of the mood of the film.
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