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Summary: Best Movie Ever Made!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is my all time favorite movie (Next to Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Reservoir Dogs). Tarantino is the best director i've ever seen. This movie is so cool with its non-stop action and its sick style for killing. The story to the movie is easy to follow and the action is the coolest. Anyone who said that this movie bad won't know a good movie if it smacked them in the face. Tarantino's movies are the greatest and thats all I have to say until...Kill Bill Vol.2
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Summary: good movie, but ...
Review: It doesn't look like the DVD will have that much stuff on it. A movie this big would have to have tons of extra footage and making of material. So they would naturally wait to make this material a third disc when the whole set is released at once. I'll upgrade my home equipment for that one, but I think I'll sit out this one.
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Summary: Best film of 2003!!!
Review: Just like everyone else, I too was waiting for the next Tarantino masterpiece to be released. I eventually saw the trailer during some movie and I got goosebumps! Then the day came, I went to the movies and saw a masterpiece. I've always regarded Resevoir Dogs as the best Tarantino movie, but not anymore!!! All I can say about this movie is that it has perfect balance! It has all the ingredients of a great movie. Uma Thurman dazzled me with her gutsy performance, both physical and emotional. The hospital scene where she wakes up and finds out about her baby was soooo convincing, I almost felt guilty, I truly felt bad for THE BRIDE. Plus all the action she does in the movie is just amazing! My vote is for Uma Thurman, best actress, and she deserves it. I saw this movie 9 times in the first week....it's that good. Till next time, I'll be waiting.
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Summary: A grindhouse spectacular!
Review: Okay, there is absolutely no need to tell any more about Vol. 1's plot unless you've just jumped down here without looking at the top reviews. Anyway, Tarantino's most recent BIG project was Kill Bill, a two-hour epic of blood and hate. From the opening credits to the final cliffhanger, this flick has Tarantino written all over Uma Thurman's triangularly shaped forehead. He's resurrected his trademarks like the jumpy time sequence, very deep morals found only between the lines, crime bosses, that kooky dialogue we've all come to know and love, and even some newer tricks have come out of his sleeve like the amazing anime sequence and homage to even more obscure film genres we've never heard of. There is, of course the issue of violence and gore associated with this film. Anybody who can laugh at Monty Python's infamous Black Knight scene can cope with it but even still will be shaking their heads in a mix of emotions somewhere between sheer horror and pure hilarity. One scene within the climactic battle scene was even purposely put into black and white in order to keep an R rating. Overseas in countries used to that level of ferocious death, like Japan in particular, it was shown in full bloody color, while if seen over here by our children's minds the entire project would've had an NC-17. It's truly a shame when true art can't be expressed to the world in its full glory (or whatever you'd personally want to call it). Another problem about the film is the cutoff in the middle of the script. Howard Stern said that he would've loved to see it in its complete four-hour length, and even though salivating can be good I'm a little tired of waiting after this many months. Still, despite the little concerns, this is a fantastic movie. And yet, there is a certain magic about it that's almost impossible to explain. From the deep benevolent yearning to pick up The Bride and cuddle her with her bloody teeth, to the way you can truly relate to those times when hate has surged through your body like a powder keg as it does hers, you can feel this movie. Not in a Braveheart sort of way with naught but bagpipes to carry the emotion, but in a true and real way. Uma Thurman's already been nominated for a Golden Globe in this. Hopefully she'll win and when the next installment (which will completely outdo the first, I already cheated and looked at the screenplay) comes around I'll be the first in the theater for the midnight showing. And oh yeah, buy the DVD.
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Summary: Kill Bill Vol 1
Review: hey this movie rocks. It shows that women can fight just as well as the guys can. I cant wait till this comes out on DVD and I am going to see Kill Bill Vol 2 on April 16th, 2004. Everyone should see it! I heard they reveal "The Bride's" name and everything. Bill is the last one she goes after and I can't wait to see what Vol 2 is like! Check it out!
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Summary: Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Review: Quentin Tarantino returns to the director's chair with KILL BILL after a six-year hiatus. The movie proves once again that he is a hyperactive visionary and the master of cinematic coolness. Split into two volumes by Miramax in order to ensure that Tarantino's vision would not be compromised (and presumably to sell more tickets), KILL BILL: VOL. 1 tells the first half of the sprawling story, which is quite simple at first glance. A female assassin, referred to as "The Bride" (Uma Thurman), is attacked on her wedding day. Dead are her soon-to-be husband and unborn child. However, she doesn't die. Four years later, she wakes up from a coma looking for revenge. Although her ultimate target is her former boss, Bill (David Carradine), it's quite clear that The Bride is saving the best for last. And before she can track him down, she must methodically take out the minions who ruined her life. VOLUME 1's targets include Vernita Green/Copperhead (Vivica A. Fox), Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus), and the heartless O-Ren Ishii/Cottonmouth (Lucy Liu). Using a blessed sword handmade by Hattori Hanzo (Sonny Chiba), The Bride begins her relentless assault. Turning up the style and energy levels that he kept under a threshold with 1997's JACKIE BROWN, Tarantino's obvious glee and reverence for the underground kung fu action pictures of the '70s, and Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, makes for a stunning visual spectacle. Employing split screens, slow-motion, an anime sequence, and his trademark ultra-hip musical selections, Tarantino's film dares viewers to be unimpressed.
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Summary: kill bill slashes my words
Review: After a long wait, Quintin Tarantino's fourth film had arrived at our feet and dazzled our weathered eyes. Far too long have we stood at the theater waitng in lines of people eager to see the next chick flick when finally, to our minds great gratitude, Kill Bill is laid before us. Trully a stunning and wildely entertaining film combining action and art into a modern day "grindhouse" picture. Allthough lacking in sensational diologue (that was the idea), this movie is a must see for anyone who can understand a "good movie" and can drag themselves away from "love actaully."
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Summary: Black Mamba wants to Kill Bill
Review: Kill Bill Vol 1 was an excellent movie. Uma Thurman got the best role of her career as The Bride/Black Mamba, and she wants to set things straight against her former boss and squad. I was so pleased that after killing Vernita Green/Copperhead, O-Ren Ishii/Cottonmouth, Go Go Yubary, and the Crazy 88's, Black Mamba left alive for Kill Bill Vol 2, Elle Driver/California Mountain Snake, Budd/Sidewinder, and course the bad seed of the movie, Bill. Don't miss Kill Bill Vol 2. Black Mamba will show no compassion. It will blow us all away.
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Summary: Tarantino¿s Outrageous Adventure
Review: Quentin Tarantino, the director best known for "Pulp Fiction", comes back with another brilliant homage, this time to Kung Fu movies, Spaghetti Westerns, and action flicks generally. Like "Pulp Fiction", Tarantino neither copies nor parodies the genre - rather, he twists it and wraps it around, making it completely his own. In a way, Kill Bill is what every Hollywood movie tries to be but fails - it is completely empty - it's characterisation is shallow, it's logic is absurd, and whatever story it has is entirely cliché' - but Kill Bill works not so much despite these failures, but because of them. By the sheer genius of the execution, one breath-taking action scene after another steals your breath away. Terentino constantly keeps you off balance. In the film (or rather half-film)'s climatic scene, heroine "The Bride" (Uma Thurman) faces dozens of Yakuza henchmen, and single handedly defeats them, in a matter that recalls a little the battles of Neo with the Agent Joneses in 'The Matrix Reloaded'. But unlike that film, the action scenes in 'Kill Bill' don't come off as redundant and dull. Rather, Terentino, never takes the story too seriously, and just gives you amazing spectacles of battle, and bizarre humour. After "The Bride" defeats the Yakuza, she declares: "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" If the review sounds slightly incoherent, I'm afraid it reflects the film. It seems impossible to find words that will explain the sheer genius of it, what makes it one of the best movies of 2003. A Plot overview (A group of assassins kill "the bride"'s husband and unborn child, and comatose her. 4 years later, she comes to avenge.) won't do it. Nor can the dialogue, remote from the acting and photography, music and direction quite do it. No mere description can do this film justice. Because what Tarantino does in Kill Bill is raise the ante. He keeps pushing the envelope further and further. "Watch this" he dares you, and you're hooked to the screen, as each scene is more bewildering, ridiculous, hilarious, OUTRAGOUS, then the last one. In short, Kill Bill is nothing short of brilliant. Go, Run, to the Cinema, and watch it right now.
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Summary: One half of Tarantino's fourth film
Review: No other film of 2003 celebrated the pure joy of filmmaking with more mindless gusto than Tarantino's genre hopping, balls-to-the-wall, go-go bloodbath. Kill Bill Vol I is a big, gaudy shrine to style over substance - the cinematic equivalent of graffiti, loud, colorful & highly stylized. The film opens with a bang and doesn't stop for a breath, culminating with The House of Blue Leaves sequence - a stunning piece of action filmmaking and one that will be hard to top. I hope Vol II lives up to the very high expectation set by Vol I, but even if it doesn't, at least Tarantino has given us a nice little taste of superficial, spaghetti Western, blaxploitation, samurai, kung-fu eye candy. Sure, it's hollow but so are Faberge eggs. If you're looking for a meditation on the human condition, look elsewhere. But if want to see a filmmaker practice a masterful exercise in visual stimulation, Kill Bill Vol I is definitely for you.
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