Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
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Reviews Counted:216
Fresh:184
Rotten:32
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: Kill Bill is nothing more than a highly stylized revenge flick. But what style!
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $69,978,747
Synopsis: After a six-year hiatus, Quentin Tarantino returns to the director's chair with KILL BILL. The movie proves once again that he is a hyperactive visionary and the master of cinematic coolness. Split... [More]
Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Chiaki Kuriyama
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Reviews for Kill Bill Vol. 1
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Quentin Tarantino's long awaited fourth film finds the pop culture carnivore of filmmaking reinvigorating cinema a second time over with a single-plot-trajectory revenge movie that utilizes samurai sword action with a shifting score of infectious guitar d Full Review |
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A strange, fun and densely textured work that gets better as it goes along. Full Review |
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Even more gory and adolescent than its models, which explains both the fun and the unpleasantness of this globe-trotting romp. Full Review |
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I didn't leave the cinema aching to see Volume Two (out in February), though I'm interested to learn how things work out. Full Review |
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Kill Bill is a temple of worship -- a devout hymn of praise to crap cinema (which isn't always crappy). Full Review |
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3/4 |
Kill Bill is pretty stupid, but there are also moments of beauty and brilliance. Full Review |
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Unfolding as a book the film is conceived in chapters, each boasting the look and pulse of a specific genre; as expected of Tarantino, there are references to music, literature, fashion, and above all movies and pop culture, both American and foreign. Full Review |
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It's all bang, bang; no kiss, kiss. But this is still bravura film-making from a prodigious talent, and Thurman may yet prove its saving grace. Full Review |
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3.5 |
A movie that, without Uma, would have ultimately been a stylistic masterpiece, but never the stirring epic that it is shaping up to be. Full Review |
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Perhaps the funniest thing about Kill Bill: Volume One is the realization that this ode to ultraviolence and Uma Thurman's feet is probably Quentin Tarantino's most personal film. Full Review |
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Volume One is, above all, a parade of fantastic fight scenes, each one bloodier than the one that came before ... bloody in the Looney-Toons/Monty-Python sense. Full Review |
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There is no ironic overlay in Tarantino’s movies, no 'commenting' on the pop schlock he’s replicating. He simply wants to remake in his own way the kinds of movies he’s always loved, and he’s about as uncynical as a movie geek can be. Full Review |
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Kill Bill isn't human. It's cinema as cinema. Tarantino is like a hyper, too-bright child, worrying you for your attention, jumping from thought to thought in his brain Full Review |
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Blood spews from bodies like fountains of Chinese fireworks throughout the movie. Full Review |
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