A smorgasbord of slam-bang mayhem, certain to tantalize young men, and with its ultratough heroine, perhaps young women, too.
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10/09/03
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
181 - 200 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
The most gorgeous B-movie ever made.
10/09/03
Kill Bill not only lives up to the hype, it exceeds it, with some of the most amazing fight sequences ever filmed.
10/09/03
In the wake of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Matrix series, even the recent So Close, Tarantino's movie comes off as been there, kicked that.
10/09/03
A rampaging hurricane of a chop socky revenge flick.
10/09/03
Tarantino pays tribute to so many other films, you'd need a doctorate in cinema with a minor in pop culture references to catch it all.
10/09/03
If the second volume is anything like this one, Miramax might want to consider changing its name to Overkill Bill.
10/09/03
Reckless? Perhaps. Indulgent? Sure. But it's never boring.
10/09/03
This is the movie we've been waiting for from Quentin Tarantino, it combines everything he loves about movies and what he does best.
10/09/03
One of the most intense, violent and breathtaking American epics ever filmed.
10/09/03
This is Tarantino the ultimate movie geek, channeling all the best tee-hee-GROSS! moments from Hong Kong and Japanese splatter movies.
10/09/03
In Kill Bill, Tarantino brings delicious sin back to movies -- the thrill you get from something down, dirty and dangerous.
10/09/03
At a time when most movies are watery soup, Tarantino has served us a two-inch steak, bloody and sizzling.
10/09/03
A fan-boy's paradise.
10/09/03
One of this year's most entertaining flicks.
10/09/03
It may be nothing but style without substance--but what style! And it certainly beats the vast majority of pictures, which offer neither.
10/09/03
[T]he cinematic equivalent of karaoke or bad photocopies, mindlessly adopting style while forgetting the basic precepts of storytelling.
10/09/03
In Kill Bill, the allusions are the text rather than the subtext, and the movie never quite develops a life of its own.
10/09/03
...Most certainly based more on old movies than on life itself – unabashedly so, gloriously so, entertainingly so....This is simply a great “movie movie.”
10/09/03
Kill Bill Vol. 1 is contemporary Tarantino out Tarantino-ing classic Tarantino.
10/08/03
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