Does not come within a thousand miles of Pulp Fiction for philosophy, story and character development, but for style it blows every other movie this year out of the water.
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10/10/03
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
101 - 120 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Delivered with such high panache and brio, it's mesmerizing.
10/10/03
Top CriticHas matched, if not eclipsed, the power and scope of 1994's Pulp Fiction.
10/10/03
Top CriticWhatever Bill's limitations, style isn't one of them.
10/10/03
Top CriticIf your sensibilities are in line with Tarantino's, the result is sheer sleaze Nirvana.
10/10/03
Not only is this the work of a major and vital talent in full bloom, it's the most thrillingly entertaining American movie so far this year.
10/10/03
This is some glorious filth -- in the most flattering, arterial-spraying sense of filth.
10/10/03
With no real characters or ideas in sight, it seemed ultimately tiresome and forgettable.
10/10/03
It boggles the mind that after six years of silence, all Tarantino has to offer is this garbage.
10/10/03
The film is a caravan of Tarantino enthusiasms, from Hong Kong quickies to film noir to Kurosawa's joyous Hidden Fortress.
10/10/03
The biggest, baddest B-movie ever made.
10/10/03
An awesome explosion of visceral energy.
10/10/03
It took Tarantino six years to come up with this?
10/10/03
For the first time, Tarantino has made a film that validates almost every charge his detractors have leveled against him.
10/10/03
Kill Bill would be the easiest thing in the world to dismiss if it weren't so much nasty fun.
10/10/03
A diverting but sanitized space-saver.
10/10/03
QT's back and damn if the wait wasn't well worth it. Get ready for oodles of violence and swashbucklung humor!
10/10/03
An eye-popping, blood-soaked, ingeniously choreographed thriller and Hong Kong homage that ultimately adds up to ... not much.
10/10/03
A tribute both scrupulously authentic and wildly original.
10/10/03
A maddeningly uneven spaghetti Eastern that's well worth seeing for his technical mastery, even as it challenges you with the geeky auteur's boundless self-indulgence.
10/10/03
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