Uma Thurman stars as a pregnant assassin who is shot by her boss, Bill, on her wedding day. After being in a coma for five years, she wakes to seek revenge on her co-workers and boss who had attacked her.
Opening with the line "Do you find me sadistic?", Kill Bill Vol. 1, the latest film from Quentin Tarantino, proves to be a sublimely funny, if somewhat disturbing, gore-mongering splatter-fest of a story. With more corpses than you could shake several sticks at, Kill Bill relies far more on attention grabbing visuals than the usual dialogue-heavy Tarantino fare which will only serve to widen its appeal.
The basic theme of the film is that death is a dish best served cold - there"s bound to be further social commentary hidden in there somewhere but the audience may be too busy wiping the blood from their eyes to notice.
The story is divided into chapters and the action jumps backwards and forwards in time Pulp Fiction style, beginning with the slaughter of a wedding party during the ceremony. Uma Thurman plays The Bride who somehow survives the carnage, much to the annoyance of the redneck cops who don"t bother to search for signs of life. She spends the next four years in a coma only to wake up after a mosquito bite during one of the most disturbing scenes of the film.
After much stabbing and bashing of heads against doors, it emerges that The Bride used to be an assassin and that it was her co-workers from the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (DiVAS) who bloodied up the floor of the church. Once she has fully regained the control of her extremities (note the oddly large feet), The Bride sets off to wreak messy revenge on those she blames for the death of her unborn child.
Tarantino is the master of the ensemble cast and this time he wisely avoids venturing in front of the camera himself. Uma Thurman as The Bride and Lucy Liu as O-Ren Ishii are the true stars of the film with the scenes at the House of the Blue Leaves being the most stunning and most entertaining by far. The other members of the DiVAS, including Vivica A. Fox as Copperhead and Daryl Hannah as California Mountain Snake, have remarkably little screen time for actors of their calibre. While Fox is involved in a fabulously choreographed fight scene packed with amusing dialogue, Hannah lets her eye patch do most of the acting for her. As the eponymous Bill, David Carradine is not seen directly throughout the entire film but manages to verbally menace from the sidelines with the greatest of ease.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! In part 1 of Quentin Tarantino&39;s delirious revenge movie Uma Thurman plays &39;The Bride&39; a woman seeking vengeance on those who massacred her wedding party Inspired by countless Japanese swordplay actionfests (the classic Lady Snowblood among them) yakuza gangster thrillers (offering a cameo opportunity to genre icon Sonny Chiba) and Chinese martial arts movies (hence the knowing appearance of Jackie Chan contemporary Gordon Liu) Quentin Tarantino borrows from the best in order to shape his deliciously over the top cinematographic style into a simple but effective plot Look out too for &39;Battle Royale&39; alumni Chiaki Kuriyama as Lucy Lui&39;s weapon-wielding schoolgirl bodyguard and the gravel-voiced Shun Sugata (he of &39;Ichi The Killer&39; fame who also appeared alongside Tom Cruise in &39;The Last Samurai&39;) Homage? Pastiche? &39;Kill Bill&39; is not just for movie anoraks complete with all the super-smooth tunes that you&39;d expect from a Tarantino soundtrack it&39;s definitely the most outrageously entertaining film yet from cinema&39;s king of cool! Actors Uma Thurman David Carradine Daryl Hannah Michael Madsen Vivica A Fox Sonny Chiba Lucy Liu Michael Parks Jun Kunimura Ai Maeda Chiaki Kuriyama Shun Sugata & Gordon Liu Director Quentin Tarantino Certificate 18 years and over Year 2003 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English - Dolby Digital (51) ; DTS Subtitles English ; English for the Hard of Hearing Duration 1 hour and 47 minutes (approx)
The return of renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino after an absence of 6 years. Uma Thurman stars as The Bride, one-fifth of a team of assassins called DiVAS. When she decides to get married and leave the outfit her boss, Bill (David Carradine), is not a happy man and gets her former colleagues to show up at the wedding; leaving behind a blood bath and The Bride shot in the head. Four years later, The Bride sets out on a journey of revenge which is ultimately to kill her former boss, Bill. The film was due to be three hours long but was split into two films (hence the name) and Volume 2 concludes the story.
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