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Kill Bill Vol 1

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Kill Bill Vol 1

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Summary

Martial arts drama starring Uma Thurman and directed by Quentin Tarantino. A deadly assassin known as "Black Mamba" swears revenge on the traitorous fellow killers who left her for dead on her wedding day.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Alan Jones

Quentin Tarantino marshals a bewildering number of multi-genre references into a hypnotically entertaining whole in this violent martial arts revenge drama. The former video-shop worker's love of everything from Brian De Palma split screens and Eurotrash horror to Hong Kong exploitation and Ennio Morricone music finds its way into this guilt-by-association cinematic celebration. Giving a searing performance, Uma Thurman plays one of the Deadly Vipers, a crack assassination squad led by the Bill of the title (David Carradine). Left for dead on her wedding day, she falls into a coma, only to awaken four years later swearing revenge on her traitorous co-workers. Vol 1 deals with two members on her Death List Five: Vernita Green (Vivica A Fox) and O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu). Dripping with bloody ultra-violence and using startling flashbacks, knowingly fake dubbing and a quite brilliant anime section, Kill Bill is both a daring experiment in sampled cinematic language and scrounged style, and a gloriously enchanting work of neo-art in itself.

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8.2/10

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Cast

rolenameThe Bride / "Black Mamba"Uma ThurmanBillDavid CarradineO-Ren Ishii / "Cottonmouth"Lucy LiuElle Driver / "California Mountain Snake"Daryl HannahVernita Green / "Copperhead"Vivica A FoxBudd / "Sidewinder"Michael MadsenSheriff Earl McGrawMichael ParksHattori HanzoSonny ChibaGo Go YubariChiaki KuriyamaSofie FataleJulie DreyfusJohnny MoGordon LiuPai MeiQuentin TarantinoPreacherBo Svenson

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rolenameDirectorQuentin Tarantino

Details

Theatrical distributor

Buena Vista

Released on

2003-10-10

Languages

English | English | Japanese | French

Guidance

Contains violence and swearing.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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