Bloody Fantastic! (Spoilers Ahead!)

Rating: 10/10 (20 April 2004)

Saw this last night and had to watch it again the next day. What can I say except "WAY TO GO, QUENTIN!" The Bride (Beautiful Uma Thurman), on her wedding day, gets beat up and shot by her fellow assassins,known as the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad(DIVAS), lead by the wicked Bill (David Carridine). The guests, including the groom, are killed, yet The Bride survives and is in a coma for 4 years. Waking up, she sets a plan in motion to seek out and kill those that tried to kill her.
The film is a tribute to the old school kung fu movies, anime and even "spaghetti westerns" (The Bride's name is not revealed until part 2). Like Tarentino's "Pulp Fiction," it is out of sequence, jumping back and forth. Daryl Hannah's Elle Driver, although not in the film that much (Her best work will be in Kill Bill Vol. 2), is wicked. The best parts include The Bride's battle with Copperhead (Vivica A. Fox, kicking some serious ass), her fight with O-Ren Ishii (Cool as ice Lucy Liu) and her gang at The House Of Blue Leaves (Nice name! And what's up with the guy that looks like Charlie Brown?), and O-Ren's origins(Nice anime!). None of the people involved in this revenge film are saints (The Bride is an assassin, after all), and you actually end up feeling a tiny bit sorry for the assassins (Especially Fox's incredibly violent death in front of her daughter), but that's what happens when you live this kind of life.
To get the full feel of the film, watch it back to back with part 2. Hopefully, they'll put the film back together the way it was supposed to be.