Highly Recommended

Rating: 10/10 (6 September 2017)

'KILL BILL: VOL. 1' - 2003
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Starring Uma Thurman
Plot Overview: ​After a team of lethal assassins lay siege to her wedding and kill her child, The Bride(Uma Thurman) seeks revenge against those who wronged her... and she takes no prisoners!
Don't let that over-dramatised plot overview fool you! This movie is fun personified. Tarantino's bloody revenge thriller is everything I wanted it to be and so much more. I can highly recommend this movie to anyone has not seen it, and if you have, watch it again. It is that good of a film. Well deserving of being in the Top 250. Kill Bill Vol. 1 is a masterpiece. I have a lot more to say about this film so I better stop gushing.
The plot for this movie is a very simple revenge plot. But that is the beauty of it. Such an overly simplistic and basic plot is actually kind of poetic, when taken in regards to the rest of the plot. The ending is perfect and the last scene just before the credits is utter cinematic brilliance. Well done Tarantino and Thurman. Your deceptively simple plot is actually genius.
Uma Thurman was EXCELLENT as the Bride. This could be considered her best role and I can see why. She provides such a wide array of emotion and anger through just her facial expressions and actions that I think this could have been a movie were she won an Oscar. Maybe I over-exaggerating. Who knows? All I am saying is that she was fantastic in the film. Withholding information from us about her was a genius idea because that really adds to the mystique and intrigue of her character.
Lucy Liu was also terrific as O-Ren Ishi. I think she was unfortunately sifted to the back lines due to Thurman's spectacular and iconic performance but I do definitely think she deserves some more recognition.
I am definitely a fan of leaving us in the dark about Bill and the other assassins. This route lets them characters blossom in Kill Bill Vol. 2(I hope) and means more time can be dedicated towards them. It also saves shoving too much exposition down our throats in one movie.
What can I say about this movie's technical side that hasn't already been said? To be honest, nothing but that won't stop me from praising it to death. The CGI in this movie is hysterically funny and awful but works so, so well with the ultraviolent over the top tone. The cinematography, editing and lighting are all so visually stunning. It is a fantastic looking movie and I can recommend it purely for its gorgeous cinematography. Both the costume and set design are exceptional. It is a technical masterpiece of a film!
Now the action. The ACTION! It is beautiful. B-E-A-UTIFUL! When this movie goes down, it GOES DOWN! There is ONE black in white sequence, during which my jaw was on the floor in total and utter awe. Making that rhyme wasn't intentional but it was a fun occurrence so I ain't touching it. All major action set pieces in this movie are excellent and look fantastic. They are stunning and true delights to watch.
​ This is such a great, fun, ultra-violent movie which I cannot recommend enough. Don't let the overly violent nature of it scare you off, I haven't got a strong stomach but it is more cartoony than disturbing. Not that I recommend kids see it, though. I'll rate this movie 10 Severed Limbs out of 10! Please see this gem if you have not.