Product details: - Product group: DVD
- Edition: DVD
- Publisher: Miramax
- Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
- Release Date: 2004-04-13
- Starring: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Lucy Liu
- Audience rating: R (Restricted)
- Encoding: Region 1
- Run Time: 111 minutes
- Studio: Miramax
- Aspect Ratio(s): 2.35:1
- Manufacturer: Miramax
- Brand: Kill Bill
- Package Dimensions: 7.5 x 52 x 75 inches
The acclaimed fourth film from groundbreaking writer and director Quentin Tarantino (PULP FICTION, JACKIE BROWN), KILL BILL VOLUME 1 stars Uma Thurman (PULP FICTION), Lucy Liu (CHARLIE'S ANGELS, CHICAGO), and Vivica A. Fox (TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME) in an astonishing, action-packed thriller about brutal betrayal and an epic vendetta! Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, The Bride (Thurman) emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback ... with a vengeance! Having been gunned down by her former boss (David Carradine) and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight she didn't start but is determined to finish! Loaded with explosive action and outrageous humor, it's a must-see motion picture event that has critics everywhere raving!Customer reviews:  Quentin Tarantino's BEST film!, 2010-02-02
For as much violence and gore as is contained in Quentin Tarantino's FOURTH FILM (as he so gratuitously informs us in the opening credits!), I think that KILL BILL VOLUME ONE is a great example of the "less is more" philosophy of filmmaking. Of all of Tarantino's films, this one has the least dialogue. In fact, it is really minimalist. I don't think there is one wasted line in the whole film! It just cuts (literally) to the chase. In all his other films, with possibly the exception of PULP FICTION, I really think that some of the extraneous, extended dialogue ruins some or all of the film experience.
KILL BILL VOLUME ONE has a singular plot: a mysterious woman (given the moniker "The Bride" by the head of a group of Texas Rangers who find her the sole survivor of her wedding day massacre in a small Texas church), is out to avenge the death of her baby at the hands of her former assassin colleagues The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. The group's leader is "Bill", heard, but unseen to the viewer during his part in the film. Bill shot The Bride in the head but she survived and was comatose for 4 years before awakening. "The Bride" is played by Uma Thurman, who IMHO gives the best performance of her career and should have garnered a Best Actress nomination for fully transforming herself into an athletic, cold-blooded, take-no-prisoners death machine! Thurman is entirely convincing in this role and never once did I doubt her character or her goal.
In VOLUME ONE, Tarantino has The Bride only go after Vernita Green (played to the hilt by Vivica Fox in a brief, juicy role) and O'Ren Ishii (superbly played by Lucy Liu). The Bride's confrontation with Vernita sets up the film and this scene is an impressive, bloody, chickfight of hand-to-hand combat with a very satisfying conclusion. The film is told nonlinearly as we see early on that The Bride has already taken out O'Ren and the rest of the film details the sequence of events leading up to this. Tarantino really displays extremely competent, confident filmmaking during these sequences as he smoothly transitions from one story to the next, including a wonderful Japanese anime scene detailing the backstory of O'Ren and The Bride's seeking out famed swordsmaker Hattori Hanzo (pitch-perfect Sonny Chiba) to obtain a sword that "even God himself" would fear! The exciting, pulse-pounding climax has The Bride take on O'Ren's psychotic teen bodyguard Gogo Yubari (impressive ingenue Chiaki Kuriyama) and her "Crazy 88" army. Then, finally, the swordfight between The Bride and O'Ren, a beautifully executed (no pun intended!) otherwordly scene.
What makes KILL BILL VOLUME ONE a masterpiece to me is that Tarantino perfectly mixes elements of several film genres and sub-genres (70s kung fu, Western, revenge, chick flick) into a brilliantly edited film. He also infuses the film with timely, snappy, witty, comical dialogue and narration (Thurman's) as well as perfect music choices, esp. using that Japanese group in the club at the film's climax to underscore the upcoming action. Nothing feels out of place or unnecessary in this film. In summary, it all just comes together!
KILL BILL VOLUME ONE is about as entertaining as it gets!
Excellent buy!, 2009-12-08
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