Wiggle your big toe.....

Rating: 10/10 (8 January 2011)

"The Bride" was 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, Vernita Green, Budd, and Elle Driver, not to mention her boss, Bill - find her and assassinate the entire ceremony while Bill shoots her in the head, putting her in a coma.
Well, Bill and his people should have tried a little harder because, after four years, the Bride has awakened from her coma.
And Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned...
After the relatively disappointing Jackie Brown, Tarantino brings us back to the seventies, with this slice of brilliant martial arts cheese, probably his first real foray into the grindhouse territory.
The film isn't meant to make much sense, isn't meant to be realistic in the slightest, this is just a film about a woman after revenge, and a beautiful homage to the chop socky movies we loved from the seventies.
The best thing about the first volume is that we have no idea, why she was 'killed' by the viper squad, and we no nothing about the brides background, apart from the fact that she was holding the titular characters baby.
This is what makes the film so intriguing, because not much is explained.
So what we have is the usual Tarantino dialogue, stunning music, which fits to every connotation, and a great performance from Thurman.
The rest of the cast are great too, but we are left in the dark about the majority of them, apart from the background of O-Ren, which is bought to us in wonderful anime.
The set pieces are wonderful and very imaginative, and prove that Tarasntino can do more than just write cool dialogue.
it's not a gimmick that this film was released in two parts, The first part is obviously a nod to eastern Martial arts movies (see Sonny Chiba in a glorious role).
Volume 2 is a homage to the western genre.
This is the most satisfying part though in my opinion, it never loses momentum, and the final line is a killer.