Roaring Rampage of Revenge

Rating: 10/10 (27 June 2006)

It took about six years for us to hear anything from the brilliant director/writer Quentin Tarantino. Then in the year 2003 we finally got him back with the amazing "Kill Bill Vol 1". The movie is a combination of Yakuza/Samurai/Triad movies what the good old Tarantino so much adores.
"Kill Bill Vol 1" is a story of "Bride" (Uma Thurman) who is attacked by his former boss Bill (David Carradine) on her wedding day. After being in coma for four years the "Bride" wakes up and she has a vengeance on her mind. "Bride" works trough highly trained employees (for example Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen etc..) to finally kill Bill.
The film would have been over three hours long if Tarantino had decided to cut it in two pieces. In result the two parts work as they are. Tarantino has planned to make also one whole movie about "Kill Bill".
The film was very fun to make. Uma Thurman has said that: "Kicking ass is ridiculously satisfying...". I have heard that the old violence lover Tarantino had a fantasy about Thurman killing people for real... Maybe that would had gone too far... The realistic action and killing is enough in the embodiment of fantasy and imagination.
As usually Tarantinos dialog is rich and intriguing. He is a hell of a story teller who's mind is pure genius. You can tell that he has had certain actors on his mind while writing the script. Uma Thurman fits in the part of the "Bride" excellently. Once again a couple of Tarantinos favorites, Michael Madsen and Samuel L. Jackson have got a little parts in the film. The result is very satisfying indeed.
"Kill Bill" may seem to be cruel and crude but inside burns the various flames of feelings. Once again Love is a powerful thing. You can see it burning while watching the film.
If you see "Kill Bill Vol.1" you must see also "Kill Bill Vol.2" because the first part isn't anything without the ending even if the part one is a bit better than it's sequel!