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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Kill Bill Vols. 1 & 2 (Box Set) Reviews:
TARANTINO'S OPUS 
2008-11-15 - Usually I am not a huge fan of Tarantino, but when he is great, like with Reservior Dogs or this fantastic duo, he is truly a unique filmmaker. Uma Thurman is great is this, she is perfect as the bada** heroine and Caradine rocks as her nemisis the eponymous Bill. This is just a fun movie to watch, it's full of over the top violence of course, this is Tarantino afterall, and the the action sequences are sort of tougue in cheek, in a omage to Bruce Lee. In addition to Thurman and Caradine, Daryl Hanna rocks in this, the fight scene between she and Thurman is one of the great cinematic Cat Fights of all time. This film is really Uma Thurmans and she throws herself into it head first. Really the best part of the film is the ending, it ties everything together is and is poinient and funny in way..the look on Caradines face is priceless. Since this is actually one film broken into two parts and this is a box set I really saw no reason to compare the two, I reviews it as as whole, and you should look at it as such, I mean who is going to watch Vol. 1 and not Vol. II..get realz. Nice work, by Tarantino, highly recommended, really a classic of this genre..uh whatever this genre is~
Sorry can't help here. 
2007-10-08 - I order it from a very unreliable seller,I never got the box-set. Just two DVD's in separate jewel cases and one was damaged.
A Fitting Tribute... 
2007-07-07 - ...to an era-gone-by. I won't make this wordy, because I feel that other users have written reviews that more than amply describe the details of this two-part cinematic masterpiece.
Everything in this movie, and I mean /everything/ is the ghostly image of something from the golden age of kung-fu cinema poured through the imaginative filter of Quentin Tarantino's mind and stylized to the point of near-absurdity. Even so, it is just this almost-insane pacing and imagery that makes the movie. The dialogue is tight and razor-sharp, contrary to a few comments. What you must understand, is that it is being written in a manner specifically characterizing that which it parodies.
Tarantino clearly loves kung-fu cinema. You can feel it in every frame, no matter what is happening on screen. I have loved it as well, and I hope that many more will give this classic the chance it deserves.
There are good kung fu movies, bad kung fu movies and there's this
2007-06-11 - IFC is showing both KB movies on TV. Boy, I wish I could get back the time I wasted.
Fortunately I've got a good remote. and the pain is less. Wooden acting, rotten dialogue
boring action sequences. Painfully bad. I rate this somewhere below Crippled Masters.
I'm going to watch Dirty Ho and Princess Iron Fan and clean this from my mind.
What's with the bleeping? 
2006-12-26 - When I saw the first "volume" of "Kill Bill", I asked myself: "Self, why do they keep bleeping out this chick's name? Is surprise important, here? Does it turn out that she's really Eleanor Roosevelt, or Pam Grier, or something?" Now, after seeing the second part, I have my answer; it was strategically vital for Tarantino to conceal the fact that his heroine is, in reality, the famous Beatrix Kiddo! Whew. Glad I wasn't spoiled on that one.
But now I have another question: how is it possible for a man with this much talent to make such an agonizingly stupid movie?
