Good Luck Yellow Haired Warrior

Rating: 10/10 (10 July 2008)

Kill Bill Volume One and Volume Two are both great films and I love them both. Kill Bill Vol. Two is the better quality film, but Vol. One is the more fun.
Kill Bill is a simple revenge film, influenced by material arts and samurai films. It tells the story of the Bride/Black Mamba (Uma Thurman) who is beat-up and left for dead. She was pregnant at the time and she wakes up four years later in hospital and she looks for revenge against her attackers, O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox), Budd (Michael Marsden) and Bill (David Carradine). The film starts with a regular Quentin Tarantino trait, starting the film in the middle and showing getting ready to attack Vernita. It then tells the history about what happened with the Bride and then shows how see went after O-Ren, simply because she was the easiest the find. This was because she became the head of the Yakuza in Tokyo. This leads to the Bride going off to the Japanese capital and taking on O-Ren's whole private army.
This film works on a number of levels. It is good on an action-adventure/material arts level, with a great fight against the Crazy 88. Like all of Tarantino's films they is good dialogue, he is able to get good actors involved and is deliciously violent. There is great music, Tarantino is one of the best soundtrack directors around, a fun violent anime sequence and they are good moments of humour. The film also looks at some dark aspects of human life, including revenge, rape, family lost, paedophilia, the list goes on. Tarantino is a good filmmarker and Kill Bill is new territory for him. Kill Bill is very enjoyable.