But what did Bill ever do to you?

Rating: Null/10 (29 September 2004)

"Kill Bill" begins as a black and white preview of a beaten Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman) who is talking to someone as the camera stays focused on her face. A bullet pierces her skull and the credits immediately start to roll. This movie has me eagerly waiting the 'What's going on?' question that sits in the back of my head while my eyes are glued to the TV. As the movie progresses, Kiddo starts her anger-driven rampage with Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox). The list includes, from least important to most, O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), Budd (Michael Madson), Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), and finally Bill (David Carradine). Kiddo goes about the entire film eliminating the characters one by one. When doing this, she takes her time to plan out each kill precisely, down to the way she's going to fight. Kiddo only gets to O-Ren Ishii before the movie ends and continues the rest of the story in "Kill Bill Volume:2."
What's great about this movie is that it doesn't come out and bluntly tell us this is why this is happening. The film took us through loopholes from the present and then back to the past to explain why each person was on her list. During Kiddo's less important kills, it foreshadows a twist in the plot later in the second movie that drove me to go out and rent Volume:2. I think the reason this movie is so intriguing is that I've never seen a film relate one story from the past to the future story so well without making me want to press the stop button. The amount of detail used in this film and the more than unusual storyline had me hooked from the beginning and kept me going through the entire film, even enough to spend more money to finish it. I was quite surprised that director Quentin Tarantino didn't bore me to death like his other films where the story went nowhere. I was very impressed by the plot setting and the technique used to create this wonderful story. This film was interesting and truly one of a kind.