Kill Bill Vols. 1 & 2 (Box Set) | 
| Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Uma Thurman, David Carradine
Studio: Miramax
Category: DVD
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 18007
Format: Box Set, Collector's Edition
Languages: English (Unknown), French (Unknown), English (Original Language), Chinese (Subtitled), Japanese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 248 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.3
UPC: 018796458165
EAN: 0018796458165
ASIN: B00068ULLY
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Product 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.
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 Easily Tarantino's Most Overrated Work June 23, 2009
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Quentin Tarantino is a true filmmaker, one who writes and directs, and one who keeps on surprising others with different kinds of movies(not to mention some great soundtracks). Sure, criticism abounds regarding Tarantino, mostly because people call him all style over substance (pfft), his movies being nothing but rip-offs (yeah right), and blah, blah, blah. I say, all you people go ____ yourself, and Uwe Boll, Tarantino does not deserve to be in a boxing match with a pissant like you, so shut the ____ up and deal with the criticisms you deserve to hear from a superior, you stupid idiot.
Despite this, I still don't think Tarantino is a god, then again, it's kind of a shame some people do. Tarantino, in my opinion, doesn't touch everything and make it gold, and if there is one work of Tarantino that I don't quite care for, it's his Kill Bill series. Whether or not it's overhyped hasn't influenced what I really think about it. It's not the martial arts and foreign film, heck, it's not even the fact that there is an anime segment. Kill Bill just kind of wanes in parts, and is overall, a very uneven movie despite it's strengths (and no, I do not care about what Tarantino is supposedly ripping off).
The two Kill Bill volumes differ from one another (I prefer the first one), the former being more action orientated and fast-paced, with the second one with more of the rich dialogue that Tarantino is known for (at least in technical terms). This isn't really a problem, especially if you see the two movies as one. However, I can sympthasize if you came disappointed because one of them did not have what the other one had. It's not really a problem, and I think the movie has diversity, something a epic like movie has, so there's no real complaints there. However, a handful of other problems severely made Kill Bill one of my least favorite Tarantino movies.
Tarantino has been sometimes been accused of style over substance, though in this one, I feel that it kind of applies. Sure, the style isn't bad, but that's kind of a bad thing because the characters really aren't very interesting, which is probably the most important thing about this kind of movie, since the basic plot itself doesn't hold much weight. That's another part that makes this plot kind of meh, which, coupled with the characters (some are really boring, anyway), you don't get much to chew on when it comes to devoting screen time to the characters. It's kind of a shame that I don't have much interest in the plot, which is forntunate because it doesn't exactly revel in the plot. But when it does, that's when the movie becomes boring.
And where is the dialogue, since there is absolutely an absence of pure joy dialogue. Part of the reason that made Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs is just the invention of the dialogue. It's also missing the sharpness and pure energy. If there's any energy that comes from dialogue, those movies revel in it. Kill Bill, on the other hand, is filled with too much serious, and worse, pretty much is of no interest in me, since they really only concern the plot and character motives, and the plot really is generic and doesn't give much room to work with, made worse by less than memorable characters.
HOwever, Kill Bill does a lot right, and I still can't help but admire much of Kill Bill for what it is.
The soundtrack on here is extremely fun as usual (if there's one thing I can count on Tarantino to do in every movie, is to make a compelling soundtrack), and enchances the movie like it always has done. Once hearing it in the glorious context of his movies, you will appreciate the songs even more. Alright, why did Tarantino make the japanese band play a generic boring song before Woo Hoo? He should have put the Polysics on instead =).
And despite the fact it's more style than compelling characters and plots, there are still plenty of fun moments. Visual wise, it's Tarantino's slickest, most artistic one. Check out the way Tarantino displays the city of Tokyo! Awesome to look at, especially with Thurman zooming around on a sleek motorcycle. The sets are great, and the jumpsuit, It may be the exotic locations, though. There are all kinds of cool exotic shots, and the anime sequence is full of blood. I like when the blood sprays everywhere, all over the walls. Seen a scene in the movie Ran that does that, and thought that part was cool. And when you get to the fighting scenes, there's not a dull moment of the fight scenes (further encahnced by sound effects, visual effects, and computer graphic imagery when necessary). Sure, there orchestrated, but that's part of the fun. Plus, there's enough variety in them to make sure they don't turn a tad monotone. And they are not appealing because it's just women fighting another women, surely one of the fantasies of ever pimple-faced, fat, anime dweeb dreams of while sleeping.
Still though, I actually enjoyed the Kill Bill series, though I am pretty sure I would never go all the way to see the series again. But I still reccomend seeing it, and I sincerely hope you get a lot more out of it than I did. More peolple watching Tarantino movies is a very good thing.
c+
 TARANTINO'S OPUS November 15, 2008
Shannon Deason (Houston)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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. October 8, 2007
W. Pardlow
2 out of 23 found this review helpful
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... July 7, 2007
Nathan R. Cukryznski
...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 June 11, 2007
noman (Seattle, WA)
4 out of 51 found this review helpful
yIFC 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.
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