While the picture oozes style (and blood), it comes up short on substance — which is what has always set Tarantino's grindhouse homages head and shoulders above the pulp pictures that inform them.
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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
161 - 180 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Like the first time you saw “Pulp Fiction” at the theatre, you walk out not quite sure what to think…but one thing you do know is that you loved it, and you’ll definitely be coming back for more
10/10/03
A whole lot of movie, more than what your average 5 or 6 flicks deliver.
10/10/03
Embarrassingly masturbatory...
10/10/03
Tarantino’s talent rests with the ability to click into the viewer’s movie-going experience like a TV remote and rekindle memories of earlier film favorites.
10/10/03
With Kill Bill, Tarantino has belatedly made the self-indulgent mess many expected from him years ago.
10/09/03
Quentin Tarantino goes forward to the past -- and reclaims the cinematic style that he defined.
10/09/03
This is the only episodic film that actually leaves you wanting more. The final revelation makes you re-evaluate the entire journey, which is what a good cliffhanger should do.
10/09/03
Kill Bill is an electrifying invocation of the mysterious cathartic power of the lowdown genre potboiler.
10/09/03
A film that tells an essentially simple story in such a wonderfully flashy fashion and Tarantino’s intoxication with the joys of movie magic, like Francis Coppola’s, is so giddy and contagious that the audience becomes as excited with watching it as he cl
10/09/03
By god, this could have been great. Spectacular. A masterpiece. If only Quentin had decided to make an epic rather than an epic joke.
10/09/03
Maybe when Tarantino 'Godfather sagas-it' God knows when, Kill Bill will be the masterpiece we hope it is and he surely believes it to be
10/09/03
Even when geysers of gore are erupting onscreen, Tarantino finds a strange kind of grace amidst the chaos. He's cherishing every carefully calculated second of this experience and he wants to share the joy with his viewers.
10/09/03
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!!!!!
10/09/03
While Hollywood was catching up with Hong Kong, Tarantino was studying Japanese pulp fiction
10/09/03
Structurally and narratively amputated, Volume 1 retains head and guts but loses its heart and gams to the second installment.
10/09/03
An exercise in style.
10/09/03
Top CriticMeticulously structured, self-referential and kinetic, Kill Bill is as impeccably crafted as a graphic Amelie.
10/09/03
For the first time in Tarantino's filmmaking career, the written story -- both in word and development -- proves the least interesting part of the whole equation.
10/09/03
Top CriticA feast of bravura filmmaking, thoroughly engaging and unique in even its most derivative elements.
10/09/03
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