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Summary: Time to "Kill Bill"
Review: "Kill Bill" was either a disaster-in-the-making or a one of a kind hit -- a sprawling revenge flick that had to be cut in two and released separately. But director Quentin Tarantino serves up entertainingly mindless gore and twisted thrills in "Kill Bill Volume 1," a salute to homages.Tragedy strikes the Bride (Uma Thurman) on her wedding day: The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (DiVAS) attacks and slaughters the guests, the groom, and wounds the very pregnant Bride herself. Her former boss/lover Bill (David Carradine) finishes the bloodbath by shooting the Bride in the head. But despite his efforts, she isn't dead. A few years later, the Bride wakes to find that she has been in a coma for a few years, and has been being used as a sex toy for rent. After recovering enough to move, the Bride gets a sword sharp enough to "cut God," and goes on a revenge spree against the people who wrecked her life and killed her baby, including Cottonmouth (Vivica A. Fox) and the deadly O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu). Don't expect cinematic art in "Kill Bill Volume 1." If anything, this is cinematic pop art, a loving tribute to cheesy martial-arts flicks and westerns. Tarantino even inserts a stretch of anime detailing O-Ren's background. It's pure Tarantino, untainted by typical directing methods and immensely entertaining if you switch off your critical faculties, refrain from asking "How the heck could that happen?" "Kill Bill" isn't for the weak of stomach; over 450 gallons of fake blood are used in both movies. But the blood usage is more "Monty Python" than "Braveheart"; it's so over-the-top that it's silly and sick rather than disturbing. So is the violence -- hacking dozens of people down without getting so much as a scrape is impossible, but it's sure fun to watch. Tarantino throws out more one-liners than just about any other filmmaker around. The absurd "Trix is for kids" line aside, there are a number of great lines like "Those of you lucky enough to have your lives take them with you. However, leave the limbs you've lost. They belong to me now." The script teems with impossibilities, but they seem plausible enough in this alternate reality that Tarantino has cooked up. Call it Tarantinoland. Uma Thurman, with her yellow tracksuit and katana, rules the screen as the Bride. Despite the Bride cutting down people by the dozen, it's impossible not to appreciate her. And the best supporting performances come from Liu as the ruthless O-Ren, Carradine in a brief but intense appearance, and the wonderful, underrated Chiaki Kuriyama as evil schoolgirl Go-Go Yubari. It's silly, it's creepy, it's gaudy, and somehow it's vastly entertaining. Tarantino's special triumph in "Kill Bill Volume 1" is to somehow rope his vast store of movie homages into a gory, action-packed storyline, and one that is, at the very least, hard to forget.
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Summary: Lame
Review: I am angry that i will never have these two hours of my life back. Watching this supposed entertainment which I will not refer to as a film, I came to an amazing realisation. Tarantino has actually never done anything original. Have you ever noticed how all of his stuff feels strangely familiar? That being said anyone who thinks it's funny to base an entire film (2 in fact) on a pregnant bride who is shot in the head and then raped whilst in a coma is just plane lame and stupid. No I wasn't shocked, I didn't even think it was funny, i just thought it was a desprate attention grab, badly directed, badly written, badly acted. I even hated the garish, overdone cinematography. So why two stars? Because the soundtrack is great and because Tarantino pays homage to an interesting genre, despite the fact that he manages to screw it up so dramatically. I seriously can't understand why this immature, 15 year old geek with a.d.d calls himself a film maker... Go back to the video store you came from and rent something by a real director. Dreadful rubbish on all levels.
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Summary: Movie SUCKS!!!
Review: This movie proves once again hollywood which has this obsession of
violence to promote movies stinks real bad! Any viewer who claims this is a wonderful movie needs to get his head examine!! If you want to see real gore, go to your local morgue and smell the real death of dead human corps. This movie sucks real bad!!!!!
V.
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Summary: Tarantino is overrated
Review: Kill Bill is one of the worst movies ever made. This movie is trash and poison for the mind and soul. The USA is already going down the toilet ever since Quentin and his bird looking woman Uma Thurman appeared in that poor gangster film Pulp Fiction ten years ago, we dont need Kill Bill to help it along. If you want a great action film, I suggest you see Scarface with Al Pacino, First Blood with Sylvester Stallone, the first Robocop with the dad from That 70s Show as the head villain. Anything is better than this yuck fest!
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Summary: Lovely, but a bit too violent for many palates.
Review: I, personally, very much enjoyed this movie. However, there were times where I wondered whether I was watching a movie, or simply watching violence erupt on screen. This movie was definately filled with action, high paced, as well as slower paced suspence. The unfortunate thing is that is seems that for all the action, there is very little of the story. Overall, it was a high-quality movie, but if you're looking for something with a good, strong storyline, you may want to look elsewhere.
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Summary: COOL MOVIE!!! But there are to many stereotypes!
Review: The movie is great! everybody knows that! but to be a Quentin Tarantino movie it have a lot of stereotypes againts the asians. Quentin says that Hollywood movies are the ones that increase the sterotype againts the minoryties, and now he made a movie that is even worst than Hollywood. I know that he wanted to do a tribute to the martial art films, but I mean... . Not every asian people knows about swords, anime, samurais, revenge and killing people with martial arts, for example: The fist time that O-Ren (Lucy) appeared, she was quickly introduced by anime sequenses of Yakuzas killing her family, then she grewn up to be an assasin after avenging her family. . When Uma Thurman arrived in Japan, the only person that didn't know about martial arts and killig people was a lady that sells tickets in the airport. . In Japan, all the people were born with fake blood that comes out like a shower if you get cut and all the americans were born with normal blood. . If you saw Kill Bill 2 you realize that anything that is not asian is normal. There are many more things but I think that I finished for now. Like I said before "the movies is great" because is packed with action, swordfigthing, good story, so-so acting, great music and interesting characters. I could say that is one of the coolest movies ever since Natural Born Killers and Pulp Fiction. The movie is "whorth buy" but I think that Quentin could do a great tribute movie without so many stereotype, so let's hope that he doens't make the same mistake again. Thank you for lisening! goodbye and take care.
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Summary: TARANTINO-Master of Retro-Cool
Review: This movie should not work. It has a razor thin plot, no real character development, no redeeming message, and hardly a line of substantial dialogue. It is pure melodrama, and pure ingenious filmmaking. I thought the title was gratuitous, and was not looking forward to yet another violent movie. I wanted to hate it but I loved the cinematic references and the nostalgiac homages. It is not merely violent, it is a mockery of violence. Nothing of what happens feels real, and the viewer begins to question why the banal concept of reality should even be expected in such an artificial artform such as Filmmaking. It is funny and engaging on different levels. Tarantino has made another Cult Classic. If you are a fan of Hong Kong martial arts movies, Italian westerns, Japanese samurai movies and Anime, the low-budget Action flick, and 70's TV, then you need to see this! It is a real Postmodern work of Art. Now I'm hooked and I need to see Volume Two....Damn!
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Summary: Mamba, Mamba, MAMBA!!!!
Review: I just wish that reviewers would be accurate with their facts. The Bride is codenamed "Black Mamba" (with an "A") which is a species of fast and highly poisonous African snake (it can travel up to 12mph and 2 drops of its venom can kill a human in an hour) and which makes sense since she's supposed to be an assassin along with the rest of them. The "mambo" is a Latin dance step which is definitely *NOT* her codename. Jeez. While the movie is somewhat gory, the most jarring part is the flipflop from human actors to cheesy cartoon (describing O-Ren Ishii's history) and then back again--they could've used actors!!! It's even worse than the constant flicking back and forth chronologically (at least the black and white footage helps us to figure out whether we're viewing something in the past or the present). The best fight scene is the one between The Bride wielding a katana and Gogo Yubari using spiked ball and chain in my opinion. Even the final fight scene between The Bride and O-Ren Ishiii is a bit of a letdown.
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Summary: ostentatious homage to the 1970s kung fu movies
Review: Kill Bill, Vol. 1, at its heart, is really a simple tale of a wanna-be murder gone wrong and the revenge that courses through the intended victim. However, in Quentin Tarantino's hands, Kill Bill is an overblown blood fest. Uma Thurman plays "The Bride," who is also known as "Black Mambo." She was a part of an elite killing squad with 4 other adept assassins played by Vivica A. Fox, Darryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, and Lucy Liu. These five killers are headed up by Bill, whose face we never see in the movie. For some unexplained reason, Bill and his four killers set out to murder a very pregnant Black Mambo on her wedding day. They torture and kill Black Mambo and her unborn child...so they think. Black Mambo/The Bride awakens from a four year coma with revenge killing on her mind. The movie switches back from the distant past, to the recent past, and to the present at lightening speed without making much of a cohesive plot. The flick is filled with Quentin Tarantino -esque pop culture references and psuedo-philosophical speeches from his characters. The only thing lacking in the dialogue is his normal excessive usage of the word n***ger. Kill Bill, Vol. 1, is an ostentatious homage to the 1950s Japanese samurai, the 1970s kung fu, and the late 80s/early 90s Hong Kong action movies. I even suspect that Lucy Liu's character's name, O-Ren Ishii is a homage to the rap group N.W.A. (O standing for the first letter in Ice Cube's real name, Oshay. Ren for the deejay of N.W.A., and "ishi" sounds a lot like "Eazy-E.") I give the movie three stars out of five for the plot twist at the end, the excellent swordplay, and the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA's spot-on original scores.
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Summary: Absolute Crap
Review: Lets see,how can we glorify the severing of limbs,heads,and yes,
lets use a garden hose with a sprayer set to wide to show the blood gushing from the above mentioned body parts.
What a waste!!!!!!!
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