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Summary: You want blood... Tarantino doesn't disapoint.
Review: This is clearly the most entertaining movie I've seen all year. I was laughing the whole way through (is that sick or what). I swear to what ever God you believe in, Tarantino had to have killed at least 5 people in order to get the proper effects and sounds for this movie.
Tarantino yet again impresses me with the style of his movies, the way he presents it, the plot turns, the dialogue (in the world of the Wachowski Bros. and Michael Bay... it's hard to find a movie with great dialogue). People were literally standing up in the theatre yelling "WOAH!!!!" I haven't seen anything like that since Independence Day... but of course that movie was horrible. Definetly 2 thumbs up, 4 stars, whatever see this now!
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Summary: A bloody delight
Review: "Kill Bill, Volume 1," is an intriguing addition to director Quentin Tarantino's quirky body of work. The film stars Uma Thurman as the survivor of a vicious, bloody massacre. The story follows her gory campaign of revenge against those responsible for the bloodbath."Kill Bill" is a visually exciting film that features an animated sequence within the mainly live-action story. The film is ultra-violent, full of swordplay and shooting. But curiously the extreme gore and death never struck me as gratuitous, but rather as integral to the story and to Tarantino's artistic vision for the film. One might think of the film's violence as a twisted form of visual poetry, in the tradition of such films as Dario Argento's "Suspiria." Thurman leads an exciting multiethnic cast that includes Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Fox. "Bill" is especially rich in its powerful roles for female actors. The whole cast is superb, but it's Thurman who really shines with her gutsy, smart performance. "Bill" is spiced with some great elements of humor and absurdism. The film is structured like a book, and uses an interesting nonchronological technique to tell the story. Ultimately Tarantino left me anxious for "Volume 2."
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Summary: "Revenge is a dish best served cold.."
Review: With that quote of revenge followed by "an old Klingon proverb" in the movie you know fully what your going to get from Quentin Tarantino's new flick.Take a dash of exploitation,a liberal dose of comedy,add in some of the best choerographed kung-fu, marinade with gallons and gallons of blood & violence and simmer. End result? KILL BILL. I loved this movie like no other this year. Is this movie for everyone? Heck,no.This is the kind of movie that falls into the love it or hate it category. But it really should be viewed by everyone who just loves movies in general.KillBill just oozes cool like no other.From the soundtrack to the Shaw Brothers camera shots that snap full zoom on Uma's steely-eyed look of retribution to the anime flashback segment that doesn't break the continuity of the film.You just can't deny the artistry that went into making the visual splendor of Quentin's take on the often-overlooked grindhouse & kung-fu movies of the 60's and 70's.Much has been said about the violence in the movie and yes there is plenty of it. But it's all done with a wink & a smile. It's the epitomy of cartoon violence. For most seosoned movie-goers it's not shockworthy.This aint "Ichi the Killer" type of violence on display but what's there is satisfactory because of how damn cool it all is. Do yourselves a favor and check this out. Love it or Hate it you'll be glad you did.
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Summary: I CANT WAIT FOR VOLUME 2!!!
Review: I cant believe how much I ended up liking this movie.It simply is a great movie by a great director.The plot of the movie is very simple but it was executed very brilliantly.All of the actors were great in this movie and they couldnt of picked a better actress to play the bride.I think the fighting sequences were great and had alot of humor to them.The dialogue by the main characters is very good because you see different sides to all the characters.Alot of people complain that there was alot of unrealism in the movie but people have to realise that this was intentional because of the style of films that this movie was paying homage to.To conclude,this is a must see movie and I cant wait to see what happens next in volume 2.
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Summary: Exhilaratingly exuberant!
Review: The ultimate incarnation of style over substance, a style so pure and fueled out of an unbridled love for the cinematic form that one can not help but admire Tarantino's technique. Sure, it's basically a glorified B-movie, uncontaminated by substance, but heck - it's COOL. The cliffhanger ending is painfully anticlimatic, though. Must... see... volume... two!
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Summary: Best Film I've Seen This Year
Review: This is a great film. Although its not Tarentino's best work (Resevoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are much better). This is the most bizzar film I have seen in a long time. I Highly recommend it to any one with a brain.
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Summary: Don't lose your head.
Review: There are as of this writing already 182 reviews for "Kill Bill," so it's absolutely pointless for me to add my two cents to the mountain of change - but what can I say, this is a movie you just want to talk about. I mean, it's obviously designed for real "heads" to dissect, virtual Frankenstein composed of the body parts of dead Hong Kong flicks that it is; but it stands on its own for less informed moviegoers as a typically Tarantinan bloodbath of ultraviolence, replete with sick humor and lurid cinematography. When I saw this in the theatre, I was amused by the fact that people got up and left in disgust every time another freshly decapitated torso spurted blood ten feet in the air, which was more or less every 3 minutes. The other half laughed and made lewd comments about Uma Thurman. Personally, I can take the violence as a stylistic choice without developing an urge to go shoot up my school, so I can appreciate what Tarantino is doing here - even though I'm sure I only got about an eighth of the references (if that). It's almost as if you were flipping through a bunch of those old action films on your TV and you suddenly noticed that they somehow completed each other's plots. It's true that "Kill Bill" is "only" a revenge story at core, but since when is that a criticism? True, it may be mostly a "technical" endeavor - so what? What this movie attempts to do, it does quite well, and that's all I'm concerned with when it comes to playing armchair critic. Nice job by Uma. I've heard the criticism that she's an unlikely choice for a samurai, but that was obviously the point. She reacts with exactly the correct degree of irony when the scene calls for it, and it usually does. Practically everybody else in the film is her enemy, beginning with Vivica A. Fox. The impressive first scene sets the general tone of the movie as fast-paced, violent, tragic-comic, provocative, and blatantly derivative. Later we get a dose of the backstory, including some Politically Correct Violence as rape victim Uma exacts brutal revenge on her rapist. Then it's off to Okinawa to acquire some steel to take on her next opponent, Lucy Liu. And then...the limbs really start to fly. But I mean, come on. What did you expect? Is this really THAT shocking, coming from QT? It's hard to sympathize with the suburban soccer mom who brought her 13-year-old to "Kill Bill" and then got up indignantly halfway through and dragged him out of the theatre, disrupting all we discriminating adults. It's as if somebody went to a porno flick and complained about all the gratuitous sex. If you want an "uplifting story of the triumph of the human spirit," then go rent some paltry, sappy, contrived piece of trash starring Tom Hanks, and make yourself a nice hot cup of international coffee. If you happen to enjoy celluloid violence and action and irony and dorky in-jokes, and you happen to not already be a raving lunatic, then you can probably go see this film without subsequently running amok on society with a chainsaw. And if you do, don't blame it on Quentin!
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Summary: Bad Attempt into action kung foo
Review: Honest truth is I feel asleep watching this movie within 20 minutes in. I thought the movie was boring. Yeah there was enough fighting in the movie but the fighting was not that convincing. The movie would be perfect for kids who just love to watch fights and blood. Other then that you would just watch this movie and wonder why they even bothered making the movie.
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Summary: Wait for the double DVD pack...
Review: Kill Bill is a really stylish popcorn flick which tributes Tarantino's favorite chop-socky and Western films. If you can stomach the over the top violence it's quite a good romp.
However, do not buy both films separately on DVD. Wait until the double pack comes out which is being planned. This is why I give the DVD a low rating but the movie I easily give 4 1/2 stars with some minor complaints about Vivica Fox's acting who didn't really look comfortable delivering those blaxplotation lines.
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Summary: The Most Fun Movie of the Year
Review: I loved just about every moment of this film. It truly is a fun revenge movie that is both absurd and brilliant. I immediately had to see it again after first viewing, and I was not disappointed at all. The plot is very basic, and that is ok, cause of the brilliant style that Tarantino uses. The music and sound effects alone make the movie wonderful...but it is the cartoon-like excessive violence that makes it what it is. The fights are brutal, but in a REALLY fun way...this is where his brilliant music and sound effects choices make the film. The Battle with the Crazy 88 is gonna go down as a classic. I can not wait for the DVD and Volume 2. SEE THIS MOVIE!
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