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Summary: Kill Kill Bill 1
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The first sixty minutes should only take six, and a decade after the fabulous Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, in KB1, QT somehow breaks THE FIRST FREAKING LAW OF CINEMA:Show it, don't say it. Oh Sweet LORD, I can't remember a movie with more explication. Even worse, it's almost all profoundly unnecessary backstory, and worse still, it's pathetically adolescent--no ideas, just sad posturing that only a comicbook junkie could love. Take the first fight--it's inexcusable. The two veteran assassins not only know each other, but they also know why they're fighting, and yet they ask in depth about 1) each other's motives and 2) what each is going to do next? Please. It's a norm of fiction to expose characters to an absurd situation, but to make that trick work, you have to imagine the characters reacting rationally to it. Sadly, Quentin sooo doesn't do that in this flick. Just watch how Vivica Fox's little girl reacts, both before and after, and see how Uma talks to her: it wouldn't happen like that in a billion years. Just as in the rest of the flick, we see what Tarantino WANTS to have happen, not what must happen given the circumstances. That's the hallmark of rotten writing. Another example: the greatest sword maker in the world needs to make another sword? Why? Because none of the others were good enough? And he breaks a quarter century vow of honor after yapping with Uma for NINE seconds? Stop it. Sadly, KB1's yammering goes nowhere: the wordless scenes are either fights (reasonably entertaining), cartoon and cartoonish eviscerations/limbectomies (strangely unaffecting), or stylized scenes of characters walking around (yawners) sync'ed to music that, ten years after QT's own breakthroughs, isn't as hip as it thinks it is. Incredibly, Tarantino's students have beaten him at his own game. Snatch and Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels explained a whole lot more in a whole lot less time. The average Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode has thousands of times more ironic genre-riffing wattage than KB1's dim bulb. KB1's action sequences, though attractively shot, are embarrassingly pre-Matrix. And okay, so KB1 is an homage to Hong Kong action; so what? Without another layer of ideas (something this flick sorely lacks), you're waay better off watching, oh, maybe a Hong Kong action flick. Looks great, not funny, nothing beneath the surface, useless yapping, very, very disappointing. Sad but true: QT is behind the times.
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Summary: --------fLawLeSS-----------
Review: ============everything in this movie is great the acting, action scene, the soundtrack, and specially the scenery.========== must watch movie
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Summary: A MOVIE FOR GEEKS!
Review: As other reviewers mentioned, Quinten Tarontino has to be a real Geek. Only such a personality would have these stupid fantasies of burtally mass murdering people. Don't waste your time on this trash.
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Summary: A Postmodern Pootie Tang
Review: Even though the postmodern era has ended with september 11th, this movie persists in the motif. It falls in the mindless genre of Japanese action film, and oddly enough, the protagonist weilds a sword while on the airplane. Kill Bill is nuanced and subtle!
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Summary: A Horrible Excuse for Gratuitous Violence!
Review: Why anyone would waste their money purchasing this movie is beyond me. The concept of a female assasin is not an acceptable excuse for gratuitous violence. Don't we have enough in the world already? Quentin Tarrantino has certainly done it again. This man obviously has a passion for morbid violence and evil. This film is yet another example of how the public is seduced by violence if it is package in a slick sophisticated manner. Don't be fooled!
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Summary: Stylized - and stylish - gore
Review: "Kill Bill, Volume 1" is difficult to rate. The plot can be described in a single sentence, the characterization is almost nil, the violence is graphic and gratuitous, and yet . . . Tarantino delivers a film unlike any other. The "chapter" divisions between scenes, the interspersed gritty-textured black and white segments, and the superb soundtrack give it an art-house feel while the highly choreographed, over-the-top fight scenes (which comprise at least ninety percent of the movie) recall the classy "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "The Matrix" as well as a long heritage of martial arts films. The gore itself is pure horror film, but in the context of Tarantino's carefully set up noir atmosphere, it has a bizarre elegance of its own. The plot? A former assassin (Uma Thurman) seeks revenge on those who tried to kill her and her unborn baby years before. In this, the first volume of a film broken in two, the assassin (known both as The Bride and Black Mamba) manages to face only two out of the five on her list. Nearly two hours to exact revenge on two people and ninety percent of the film is fighting? You got it. Okay, there are some (graphic) flashbacks. And a fifty or so man Tokyo gangster (graphic) diversion. And some keen visual humor thrown in. But mostly, we see Uma Thurman in sleek, seventies-style garb wield her knives and swords as no other woman in cinema has. It's a shame Tarantino could not part with scenes from the final fight, which seems to last for an eternity, so he could combine both "Kill Bill" films into one. This one ends so abruptly and with so much unfinished business that it really cannot be considered complete without its second half. Take the R rating seriously; only mature teens and older should watch this since the violence is glamorized and desensitizes even the adult viewer. Full of profanity, raw aggression, and blood, this film is definitely not for everyone. I give this film three stars for plot and concept, but five stars for style. Although as a stand-alone film, it doesn't hold together the way "Pulp Fiction" does, the second volume promises to provide the coherence and significance. Plan to follow-up your viewing with Volume Two.
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Summary: TRASHCAN MOVIE!!!
Review: This movie should have been a comedy! Altho it wouldn't rate very high,I just laughed most of the time. I like action movies but this movie is more of a fairy tale. How could anyone rate this movie 5 stars it is simple trash! If you could rate on the minus side it would rate -5
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Summary: A vehicle for vast parcels of violence
Review: "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" reconfirms that director Quentin Tarantino revels in the depictation of oodles of gory violence. Trying to follow a similar format to his masterpiece "Pulp Fiction", he falls a little short. Kill Bill, by comparison, lacks the scope and proficiency in weaving together storylines to form the plot. Having said that, Tarantino is a genius in this blood and guts type of genre. His film is visually stunning and the choreography of the martial arts scenes is mind boggling. Tarantino fave Uma Thurman is statuesque and athletically gifted as the vengeful martial artist bride who is out to even the score with an assassination squad that murdered all nine in her wedding party. She appears to have been part of that hit squad. Nearly killed in the attack, she awakens 4 years later from a coma seeking to kill those responsible for her violation. Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Viveca Fox and an eye patched Darryl Hannah comprise her targets. Tarantino composes his flick in comic book style with no pretext to clarify or explain things. I was impressed but felt ripped off with the idea that he was setting me up for a Vol 2, Vol 3, and who knows how many more. In reality the movie's only real motivation is to line the director's pockets.
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Summary: absolute trash
Review: I dont understand the prevailing trend of movies and TV series with girls going around kicking guys butts and humiliating them.Its in poor taste and has a dangerous influence.The irony is that the kung fu skills were actually invented by men and taught by men.Anyway,this film is just awful.Stupid dialogue,overused revenge plot,and over the top violence and bloodletting.
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Summary: Tarantino's great, but this movie is not!
Review: I loved Pulp Fiction and his other movies with violence, but this one was just ridiculous! NO plot, just some violent, but not particlarly great fight scenes. And after you've been dieing of boredom (or revultion) for two hours, they sneak in a bit of plot at the end so that you have to see part 2. Tarantino said he made one film, but it was too long, so he cut it in half, but you still pay the price for a whole movie. Entirely not worth it! Don't waste your money on this or on part 2. Part 2 had some plot, but it also had some horribly disturbing scenes (like live burial). If you want a kung fu movie, buy one instead of this trash.
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