A great story about revenge.

Rating: 9/10 (30 April 2004)

Quentin Tarantino has a very unusual way of directing a movie. Relying on Inspirations from Martial Art/Bruce Lee movies and other classic Japanese films. But he does know how to borrow this genre and work it in his films. Kill Bill Volume 1 is a good example. Uma Thurman, who became a star after Pulp Fiction (another Tarantino film) Plays a character known simply as the Bride, (You have to see Vol. 2 to find out her real name.) She plays a hired assassin and is a member of the Deadly Vipers Assassination Squad. (D.I.V.A.S.) Get it? The Bride finds out she is pregnant and decides to give up the lifestyle of being an assassin and now wants to live a normal life. But during her wedding, her boss Bill and the other members of the D.I.V.A.S. crash the ceremony, kill everyone in the church and leave the Bride for dead. a few years later she wakes from her coma and begins her quest for vengeance by going after her boss Bill and the rest of the Assassins. The movie tends to go over the top in terms of violence that in some occasions it's comical. The actors though are first rate: David Carradine, (of the hit show Kung Fu.) Lucy Lui, Vivica A. Fox, and Daryl Hannah. But the film belongs to Thurman, who I believe gives her best performance since Pulp Fiction. Kill Bill has some terrific action sequences and terrific camera work (one final note, this movie is rated R for good reasons so kids should not see this.) I give it an A.