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Summary: rent, don't buy.
Review: Don't get me wrong. This is by far the greatest movie in the last few years. However this version is a bare bones just get it out DVD. Wait till christmas 2005 when QT has promised he would release both movies together with tons of extras.
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Summary: It was great
Review: Kill Bill volume 1 is a great movie. It is reminiscent of the old slasher movies and is as good as any anime movie. It is action packed beginning to end and is entertaining all through out. This is definitely not a kids film, and features great fighting action scenes and alot of blood. If you like anime movies you will enjoy this movie, there is even an animated sequence in it.
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Summary: watch it yourself
Review: Sometimes you just have ignore the reivewers and watch a movie for yourself. When Kill Bill came out some critics were hysterical in their denunciation of it. I walked into the theater expecting to see something that would send me fleeing back down the aisle, instead I saw a pretty good action flick. Should you let your children see Kill Bill? No. I'm not even going to elaborate on why. Should you see it if you are phobic about male nurses? Probably not. Is it shocking? Only if you have never seen a Japanese or Hong Kong grindhouse movie before. Is Quentin Tarantino the most evil man in movies today? Oh please! Not by a long shot. You already know the plot so I'll talk about what I really loved in this movie. Uma Thurman's character of The Bride is implacable. Her baby is gone, the young man she was to marry is dead and she will have revenge or die trying. I was reminded of the movie Hannie Caulder (from the 70s) or The Bride Wore Black(from the 50s? and The Bride With White Hair (80s). Female revenge movies are not new. This movie just raises the theme to glory. The first fight with Vernita was fantastic and it also raised questions that hopefully will be answered in Kill Bill part II. Vernita is living in a suburb, teaches Little League and has a nice, unaware husband.In other words, she appears to be retired and living a normal life so why was The Bride punished so harshly for apparantly wanted to do the same thing? I'm looking forward to finding out. The Oren Ishi back story is done in classic anime and is darn clever. The gorgeous--yes goregous final show down between her and The Bride is filmed in a snowy courtyard. Why it's snowing when it certainly wasn't even winter when the Bride arrives on the scene doesn't matter. The music and the way the scene is arranged is a direct homage to Sergio Leone and Once Upon a Time in the West. A lot of people get killed in Kill Bill. Blood flows like water, limbs are lost and in the middle of all this there are extremely funny jokes and sight gags. If you hesistated to see this movie before don't worry and see it for yourself. It's no worse than any other grindhouse movie and is a good deal wittier than most of the movies of 2003. Have fun.
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Summary: Pure Cinematic Brilliance
Review: "Kill Bill" is POSSIBLY the most violent movie ever made. My wife HATES violent movies (not a moral-judgement-issue, she just doesn't have the stomach for it) ... After FINALLY acquiescing to go see it with me (i'd seen it once already), she loved it SO much she wants to hit the bargain cinema one more time before it leaves theaters for good! This film is THAT great. Every scene is CHOCK full of rich, wonderful visual and sonic stimuli. I'm not a big Kung Fu movie buff, so I'm sure I didn't catch all the references, but a knowledge of the genre is not required to be blown away by every aspect of what Tarantino has accomplished here. It was even better the second time, and I look forward to further viewings; it's definitely one of the few films that are worth such an investment of time (along with "Pulp Fiction") ... The critics who dissed this movie just don't get it. They don't LOVE movies the same way Tarantino does; I mean I'm sure they love movies, but from a more academic viewpoint that probably has difficulty encompassing the action genre at all, even when executed so skillfully. This movie is just 100% FUN, and upon reflection is the perfect NEXT movie in Tarantino's catalog. I'd love to see him follow a career trajectory where each movie takes on a completely different genre, but puts the unique QT-stamp upon it. So far, he's 4 for 4 in my book. Just the idea alone is genius: the most over-the-top kung-fu film EVER, but nearly ALL the warriors are female. You gotta love that, and after seeing it you gotta love it even more! Along with "School of Rock", one of the FEW reasons movies DIDN'T suck in 2003 ... Thank you Quentin Tarantino; I hate to gush but you really are a genius.
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Summary: Kill Bill was awesome, the end..
Review: Great movie, lots of action, a little confusing at first but if you pay attention (as I didnt in the beginning) you'll understand it completely.
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Summary: A Hell Of A Move!
Review: Kill Bill, man what a great movie it was! It was kinda different from the rest of Tarintinos movies but it was great. Very fun to watch and a great plot and everything! I loved the ending and im wating in pain for the next one to come out! I cant wait till it comes out. If I could have given it more than 5 stars I would have!
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Summary: The Right Angle
Review: Many reviews of this movie have declared it as trash, a movie without any sort of values, which is totally crazy. Quentin Tarentino set out to make an exciting, fast-paced, gripping, violent Kung-Fu movie, and he totally succeeds. The acting is careful and fun, the sets in the movie are almost cartoony, as well is the violence. If the violence is too offensive for people, they shouldn't see it, but if you watch the violence in the movie AS the art of the movie, you've got yourself an art picture. The plot is simple, but that doesn't make it dumb. The music that is integrated throughout the picture, with the help of the Wu-Tang's clan the RZA, sets such a desolate and artificial tone, that the movie never really feels like it is set in the real world, which is perfect for it. I love this movie, and any critic who refers to it as trash, namely Anthony Lane of the New Yorker, has absolutely no sense of humor, which is too bad, for he missed out on a great, fun movie.
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Summary: Movie of the year. Period
Review: If you think that Pulp Fiction is the Tarantino's best movie...
You are close, but wrong. In fact i think that kill bill is better than reservoir dogs and even the brilliant pulp fiction...
well, in this case words don't even count cause kill bill is THE MOVIE
enjoy it!
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Summary: The Moose Hole - Tarantino's Fourth 'Kill'
Review: "Revenge is a dish best served cold." Quentin Tarantino's fourth film and the first one since 1997's Jackie Brown takes the theme of revenge like Hamlet on steroids. It has not been an easy road for this generation's "It" director. Tarantino once worked at a video rental store before writing the script for Reservoir Dogs that he later directed. It was his directorial effort in 1994's Pulp Fiction that catapulted Tarantino, as well as the independent film company Miramax, into the Hollywood mainstream. Unfortunately his next film, Jackie Brown, which, by the way, was not written by him, was not widely accepted and then Quentin Tarantino dropped off the scene for nearly six years. In that time period he took time off to act in some films but, for the most part, the idea for Kill Bill had been bouncing around in his skull. Now that idea has burst out of that skull in all its blood spewing, gut splattering glory reuniting Pulp Fiction star, Uma Thurman, with the acclaimed cult director in a film series that pays homage to the 70's karate films that many us grew up with. The story centers on a former member of a group of assassins who seeks revenge for the actions done on to her by her former colleagues. A woman known only as The Bride has waken up from a four year comma after her former boss Bill left her for dead on the day of her wedding killing her fiancé, the wedding party and her unborn child. Unfortunately for the skilled assassin, he made one big mistake: he failed to kill her. Now that she has awakened from her living slumber, The Bride will travel the world picking off her attempted killers one by one including the mysterious Bill. First up on her list is O-Ren Ishi, aka Cottonmouth, and her group of Japanese underground assassins. They better watch out because here comes the bride! The story for Kill Bill (Volume I) is probably one of the best scripts of the year despite being only half of the true plot. In a wonderful bit of technique, Tarantino starts the film off in the middle of story then backtracks to the events that start the chain reaction of revenge. He then flashes backwards and forwards in several instances that offer the best insight into the characters the audience is about to encounter. This gives better meaning to most of the fight sequences that take place in the course of the two hour feature. A relative bunch of low-profile actors and actresses make up one of the better casts of the year for this film. Uma Thurman, who starred in Quentin Tarantino's breakout film, Pulp Fiction, once again works her magic for the talented director in probably her best film performance. Thurman gives a witty and exhilarating go around with her role as The Bride seeking revenge against her former colleagues. She presents a style to the character that makes you clamor for her all the way to the shocking break point. Lucy Liu has another kick-ass character performance as O-Ren Ishi, the leader of a group of Japanese assassins. The only problem with this role is that it makes Liu feel type-casted into this sort of character. Not that she bad at it, she's extremely effective in her performance, but you get the feeling that eventually she may get bored with these roles but if it works for her then ignore this comment. Vivica A. Fox doesn't really get to show much acting ability as her character is killed off in the first fifteen minutes of the film but what she does show is her amazing fighting moves, which is the only evidence needed to prove her worth in the film. This is only a small portion of the full cast, the rest of which will appear in Kill Bill (Volume II) coming February 20th. Overall, Kill Bill (Volume I) is a wonderful kick-off point for Quentin Tarantino's best work since Pulp Fiction, despite only being half of the entire feature. Though that being said, there are a couple of things to pick at including the well-choreographed action sequences. It wasn't exactly the sequences themselves but the rather large amount of blood and gut spilling that occurred during them that had more then one person squirming in their seats. Granted having your arm or leg cut off results in a large amount of blood loss but does that blood spew out like a fountain? The campy style of violence that occurs in Kill Bill (Volume I) may seem disturbing as the feature starts off but by the end, it doesn't seem so unnatural, which says something our culture's customization to violence and bloodshed in films. The pacing of the feature seemed well balanced but definitely dragged near the end as the film wrapped in a spin-chilling conclusion for the time being. But other then those small squabbles, Quentin Tarantino gives an eerie insight into what the concept of revenge does to the human psyche and what it could potential lead people to do if not controlled. It is said in the film, revenge is like a forest. Men (and women) can easily be lost in it and lose track of where they started or where they were going, so caution must be taken when start off on this path. The famous cult director starts off with accelerating beginning; let's hope he can deliver on what the chilling twist promises.
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Summary: Kill Bill Kicks
Review: You know those things in life where you are so struck with its glory that you are speechless and cant describe it in words. Yeah, in case you haven't figured out, this movie is one of those things
If I could, I would have given it 6+ stars! Cannot wait for the sequel.
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