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Director(s): Quentin Tarantino

Editor: Miramax

Category: Action - Action / Adventure - Adventure - Feature Film-action/Adventure - Movie

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DVD Kill Bill, Volume 1

Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, Vol. 1 is trash for connoisseurs. From his opening gambit (including a "Shaw-Scope" logo and gaudy '70s-vintage "Our Feature Presentation" title card) to his cliffhanger finale (a teasing lead-in to 2004's Vol. 2), Tarantino pays loving tribute to grindhouse cinema, specifically the Hong Kong action flicks and spaghetti Westerns that fill his fervent brain--and this frequently breathtaking movie--with enough cinematic references and cleverly pilfered soundtrack cues to send cinephiles running for their reference books. Everything old is new again in Tarantino's humor-laced vision: he steals from the best while injecting his own oft-copied, never-duplicated style into what is, quite simply, a revenge flick, beginning with the near-murder of the Bride (Uma Thurman), pregnant on her wedding day and left for dead by the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (or DiVAS)--including Lucy Liu and the unseen David Carradine (as Bill)--who become targets for the Bride's lethal vengeance. Culminating in an ultraviolent, ultra-stylized tour-de-force showdown, Tarantino's fourth film is either brilliantly (and brutally) innovative or one of the most blatant acts of plagiarism ever conceived. Either way, it's hyperkinetic eye-candy from a passionate film-lover who clearly knows what he's doing. --Jeff Shannon

Review(s): DVD Kill Bill, Volume 1

unneccessary

Kill Bill is the most distasteful movie Quentin Tarantino has ever done. From the unnecessary gore to the artless battle scenes that directly copied Japanese Manga, Mr. Tarantino has really categorized himself as one of the worst fall-from-grace directors of all time. Pulp Fiction was a cult classic, there is no doubt about it, even the Oscars recognized Quentin's talent, but Kill Bill probably stinks more than a jockstrap filled with onions. Despite its great reviews from blood sucking critics, I thought it was a horrible movie. It was bloody. It was boring. It was corny. And if the high-wattage name of Quentin Tarantino was to make this flick an artistic masterpiece, it failed.
First there is the title card with the quote "Revenge is a dish best served cold," followed by the attribution "old Klingon proverb." Which sometimes does lead the audience to think that the story will dig deeper and include rounded characterization as well as splendid film plot, but it doesn't. Taratino's new film does not portray revenge as a deep and powerful emotion, but rather as just a thing you should do when someone wrongs you. All the characters will remain flat, as Taratino's new film is just an "Itchy and Scratchy" story played by famous actresses. Hate and revenge are the only themes involved in the storyline and neither is portrayed with great depth.
In the first scene, the story (as in most Tarantino movies) starts at the end. The viewer is immediately placed into the action as we witness a pregnant bride (Uma Thurman) bloody, surrounded by the corpses of her wedding party, and pleading for her life before she is shot in the head. The voice of a faceless man is introduced, and is the one that shoots Uma in the head. But anyone who has seen the previews knows who Bill (David Carradine) is, and remembers the voice that used to fill the old Kung Fu series, so the element of surprise is never there when we are introduced to Bill's true identity later on. Of course, as with any cliché, the hero doesn't die -- and four years later she is out for revenge.
It is also interesting to note that Taratino's new film is viewed in chapters instead of a stream of connection plots. I don't know if this is because Taratino is paying tribute to the Kill Bill Manga (Japanese cartoon) series, but it seems like just another bad attempt at being original. I should also note that perhaps Taratino is using this particular format to "cut to the chase" better than most other action movies. But who really cares.
Back to the story, the main character's (Uma Thurman) only goal in the movie is introduced early. Well actually, it is introduced in the title - Kill Bill. But first, she has to find Bill. The viewer is introduced to Bill's little gang of assassins. The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad consists of five most deadly killers, led by Bill. There is O'Ren-Ishii as Cottonmouth (Lucy Liu), Elle Driver as California Mountain Snake, Vernita Green as Copperhead (Vivica A Fox), Budd as Sidewinder. And there is The Bride (Uma Thurman), whose name is not spoken.
Uma Thurman battles out with a Copperhead aka Vivica A Fox. The audience is introduced to her in a surreal sequence of events that will set the tone for the rest of the film. Although Vivica's character does include a certain depth, Vivica's love for her daughter does not ever come to the surface, and even when it does, her lines are filled with sarcasm that leads the crowd to laugh rather than to understand her position. I think it is interesting to note that Uma did not kill Copperhead's daughter while Copperhead had no problem killing Uma's daughter, It's also interesting to note that Uma Thurman's character had a baby, and "lost" it and Copperhead has a daughter and she is four. Which could lead the viewer to think that maybe Copperhead took care of Uma's daughter this whole time and the second film is going to include a more in depth conflict between mother and daughter. Because the daughter thinks Copperhead is her real mother and did see Uma kill her "mother."
Uma kills Copperhead and is set out to go to Japan to battle ex-Viper O-Ren (Lucy Liu) and her army of yakuza in a Tokyo dancehall. Asian movie references abound. Taratino honors Sonny Chiba (the very famous Japanese actor) by giving the Japanese movie hero a very substantial role in which he describing O-Ren's violent origins, in Japanese animé. I personally thought that the anime version should have been cut but realized that no moviegoer would have liked to see a child actor commit so much bloody homicide. (Especially a girl) Tarantino also honors Bruce Lee by employing "The Green Hornet" theme and putting O-Ren's yakuza in Kato-like masks and the final battle scene with Bruce Lee's yellow striped costume. And when The Bride flies into Tokyo, it's not a real Tokyo -- it's a model Tokyo that looks only minutes away from a Godzilla visitation.
The copious violence, climaxing in fire hoses of blood gushing from arms and legs in the dancehall fight, is so removed from reality -- and, in a sop to the MPAA, partly shown in black-and-white -- that they turn comical. Some scenes, chiefly a gratuitously nasty bit involving a hospital orderly who pimps The Bride's still-comatose body, are not so easily dismissed as cinematic excess.
Thurman gives a spectacular "physical" performance; slashing and dicing probably took hours of choreography and hundreds of hours of practice. Uma's throws her 5-foot-11 self into the demanding fight scenes opposite Liu. But there's not much to say for Thurman's mental performance. She's angry, she fights, she kills, end of story.
In my opinion, some of the highest points of the movie where during the scenes with Japanese legend Sonny Chiba, filled with humor and beauty. It also incorporates a western style of hatred and aggression into an eastern style of seeing fighting as art rather than ruthless violence. Sonny's swords are a sight to see. Another good scene was the final scene with Lucy Liu, as Uma steps out of the tumulus restaurant only to find a peaceful and beautiful snowy setting. Of course then there's more fighting and blood and senseless violence. But oh well.

Bloody

Confusion. You must see Kill Bill 1 and 2 to understand. Quite a good movie. Bloody as it can get. Quite graphic. I cringed at the sight of an eye being pulled out, someone getting scalped and hair flying upwards. Splat, swoosh, squirt.
I saw Kill Bill 1 and thought what the hey this movie is about. I saw Kill Bill 2 and then I understood. Neat, with a weird sense of styling. Made me want to go out and buy the sword, a Hattori Hanzo Katana. It was nice to see Gordon Liu. He plays a Shaolin Monk Master in other movies. Sonny Chiba was cool. He played Hattori Hanzo, a ninja in other movies.
Only wish they played Spagheti western music like in Clint Eastwood movies. Weird movie if you like a lot of blood splashing the screen. Wear red sunglasses and it will be alright. A little anime cartoons. Typical Japanese gore. Watch the movie and correct me if I am wrong.

Are you a Tarantino Fan?

I can't add anything that hasn't already been said, so I'll keep this very short and sweet. I avoided watching this movie, because I'm not a Tarantino fan. However, I caved in and watched Vol 1, and (inexplicably) the first 1/3rd of Vol 2.

If you aren't a Tarantino fan, you're not going to like these, plain and simple. There isn't some drastically new ground that's going to make you suddenly say, "OH! Quentin Tarantino, now I like him!"

Uma looks gorgeous, and all the ladies are in fantastic shape. It's a comic book of spraying blood, jerky plot progression, and great looking ladies. However, it's Tarantino through and through. I would have survived without. If you're a QT fan, it'll be worth all the stars most other people give it.

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