Kill Bill - Volume One | 
| Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Lucy Liu
Studio: Miramax
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1130 reviews
Sales Rank: 677
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), Japanese (Subtitled), Georgian (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 111 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D32210D
UPC: 786936226997
EAN: 0786936226997
ASIN: B00005JMEW
Theatrical Release Date: October 10, 2003
Release Date: April 13, 2004
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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
Product Description
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 into two volumes by Miramax in order to ensure that Tarantino's vision would not be compromised (and presumably to sell more tickets), KILL BILL: VOL. 1 tells the first half of the sprawling story, which is quite simple at first glance. A female assassin, referred to as "The Bride" (Uma Thurman), is attacked on her wedding day. Dead are her soon-to-be husband and unborn child. However, she doesn't die. Four years later, she wakes up from a coma looking for revenge. Although her ultimate target is her former boss, Bill (David Carradine), it's quite clear that The Bride is saving the best for last. And before she can track him down, she must methodically take out the minions who ruined her life. VOLUME 1's targets include Vernita Green/Copperhead (Vivica A. Fox), Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus), and the heartless O-Ren Ishii/Cottonmouth (Lucy Liu). Using a blessed sword handmade by Hattori Hanzo (Sonny Chiba), The Bride begins her relentless assault. Turning up the style and energy levels that he kept under a threshold with 1997's JACKIE BROWN, Tarantino's obvious glee and reverence for the underground kung fu action pictures of the '70s, and Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, makes for a stunning visual spectacle. Employing split screens, slow-motion, an anime sequence, and his trademark ultra-hip musical selections, Tarantino's film dares viewers to be unimpressed.
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 This One Tied for Worst Movie of All-Time June 14, 2009
Jonathan S. Friedman (Orlando, Fl USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Absolutely no reason to watch this movie. Watched for 30 minutes, and found it to be torture, with the worst bathroom humor and violence done in bad taste one could imagine. The guy who directed this film should be a bum on the streets, why make an atrocity like this? If I could have given it 0 stars I would, a complete waste of time and a real downer.
 One Of The Best Martial Arts Movies Ever Made May 10, 2009
YJM (Somewhere In The South)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Oh boy, so there is currently something like 1,200 plus reviews for this movie on Amazon. Is another review necessary, no, not all. But it's on tv right now and I'm watching it again even though I've seen it more times than I can count and even though I actually own the movie (and number II).
Let's keep this short, Kill Bill is a masterwork of choreography, cinematography, pacing, and sound. It is a visual masterpiece. The soundtrack is fantastic, and is something that doesn't seem mentioned when it comes to reviews of this movie. The right song at the right time.
The acting is superb. Bruce Lee would be very proud were he alive today to see Uma Thurman donning the same orange jumpsuit he wore in Game of Death. She is spectacular in the lead role. This movie has Quentin Tartino's style over it, which is to say it pays respect to the movies that influenced him as a kid (grindhouse, 70's kung fu flicks, anime, old Japanese monster movies etc) while still being a thoroughly modern, original, and engrossing action movie. I love it, I can't find a flaw with it.
Check your brain at the door and enjoy the ride. It's an instant classic in the martial arts/action genre and just as Bruce Lee movies are still enjoyed generations after his passing, the Kill Bill movies will have the same effect on future generations. The same praise for Kill Bill I also applies to Kill Bill II, and it's easy to watch both movies back to back, as they are so good and so engrossing five hours will pass before you even know it. As stated in the beginning of the review, I have seen both movies more times than I can count, and I enjoy them just as much with every viewing. There is so much sensory input to take in there is always something new to discover. They never get old.
 Snoozy April 29, 2009
Bachelier (Ile de France)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Snoozy.
Like watching Kabuki theatre, or Noh...it is that dull, and unless you have the same visual and cinematic archeology, you never "get" it. I feel like Homer Simpson watching Twin Peaks. Not only do "[y]ou never forget that Kill Bill is an exercise in genre-sampling," you get beaten over the head with and told you are a dummy because you don't know what the film is referring to.
The story follows a woman who goes on a rampage of revenge. Smarfart cineophiles get their eyeballs stroked like tools with nearly every shot.
The mundane and exotic are contrasted so starkly you begin to think the film is actually being shot in black and white and you are simply graphemic.
Taratino as always over-did it. OVERKILL. March 2, 2009
Jose Lopez (Miami,Florida USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Once again another "Good Movie" According to Taratino, The movie is over kill, and the very ugly uma thurman, movie really is overkill in the action sequences, in the violence, in the acting, pretty bad movie. I hate "catchy" hip flicks.
5 stars collection February 13, 2009
ANDY T. Siing (malaysia)
One thing about Quentin Tatantino is, either you like him or you don't.
KILL BILL VOL.1 is a fantastic storyline to me, I don't quite enjoy KILL BILL VOL.2. A lot of killing, chopping, blood and XXXX words, this is definitely not for under age.
For me, I love this movie.
Pure entertainment, great acting, great martial arts action, great graphic, and great music.
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