Another knockout film from Tarentino!

Rating: 8/10 (13 August 2006)

PLOT OUTLINE: 'The Bride', who was once the deadliest assassin of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, until the day she decided to leave the business, assume a new identity, and get married. But it was on the day of her marriage that her old "friends" - O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox), Budd (Michael Madsen), and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) and her boss, Bill, decided to crash the wedding, killing everyone there...and putting a gun to the Bride's head, however she did not die. She is just in a coma, and is about to wake up, and travel to Tokyo, Japan and begin her revenge on the five people apart of the team that The Bride herself was once apart of.
Kill Bill: Vol 1 is about a young woman bent on revenge. But it's also about the screen return of Quentin Tarentino, the most outrageous American filmmakers working today, and one of my favorites. "Working today" may be a stretch because "Bill" is his first film in over five years, since 1997's Jackie Brown. And it certainly looks like Q.T. has been hard at work, filling every scene of "Bill" with meticulous detail and over-directing in his manic style. The writer/director again shows a lack of cinematic originality, while maintaining his genius for action-packed, 1970s Japanese style violence and entertainment.
Kill Bill is a lot of fun. Hardly a dull moment goes by. But that underlines the obvious fact that the film is all surface, full of gun-fights, boffo martial arts sequences, and with virtually nothing to think about. It's the proverbial assault on the senses, as you're given a queasy stomach to get you going before Tarentino graduates to repulsion through sight, sound, smell and even taste.
The performance by Uma Thurman is fierce, she is a beautiful, and an extremely talented actress. Lucy Liu and the rest of the supporting cast also give in sharp performances.
Overall, Kill Bill Vol: 1 is easily one of my favorite films of 2003, and its also responsible for making me a devoted Tarentino fan (no I hadn't seen Pulp Fiction before this!). The film is a grind house of sharp dialouge, set design and over the top gore which is done so magically, and put together perfectly. A true classic.
10/10
See It If You Like: Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and Fight Club
-Luke Rowe