Kill Bill, Volume 1

MPAA Rating

R

Theatrical Release Date

Oct 09, 2003

Genre(s)

• Crime
• Thrillers
• Quentin Tarantino
• Revenge
• Feature Films
• DTS

Rating (Stars)

Description

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. --Jeff Shannon

Director

Quentin Tarantino

Stars

• Uma Thurman
• Lucy Liu
• Vivica A. Fox
• Daryl Hannah
• David Carradine

Running Time

111 minutes

Original Price

$19.99

Current Value

$3.58

DVD Features

• Anamorphic
• Color
• Dolby
• DTS Surround Sound
• DVD-Video
• Widescreen
• NTSC
• 2.35:1