THE WAIT BEGINS...

Rating: 10/10 (12 October 2003)

I just returned from a screening of Kill Bill vol.1 and I must say that I was completely impressed and pleasently suprised. Quentin Tarantino has revived the entire action genre. Although there wasn't anything completely new in this film, it managaed to do everything in a new and creative way. However, I must say that to most it will seem completely original and it is. But people just won't get the many homages and sincere throwbacks to the grindhouse and splatter classics of the 70's. Pretty much the best decade of film. The suprisingly talented Uma Thurman(gattaca) gives a heartfelt and kick ass performance as Tarantino's title charachter bleep!( that's what happens everytime they speak her name.) You see four yrs. before the film starts her own assasination squad turned on her and she was brutally beaten with her husband and unborn child and murdered on her wedding day. Or so they thought. She wakes up out of a coma after four years and the revenge begins to gush. And does it gush since this by far the bloodiest R rated film in probably forever. But it's done in a respectable, cartoon like manner. So that it doesn't come off offensively but more light hearted. Now I definatly don't wanna soften this movie down. Cause it is indeed an extremely graphic genre picture. But it also has extremely sentimental and passionate performances from it's cast, powered with great dialogue and a brisk and bloody revenge tale. Go see Kill Bill right now! The wait is on the cliffhanger at the end of this one rivals any other cliffhanger ever created. The wait is on!