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KILL BILL: VOLUME I
U.S., 2003
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Starring Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, David Carradine, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah
Approx. 111 min. 35mm.
“The Bride (Thurman) used to hang with the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, until Bill ordered the team to turn her wedding into a bloodbath. She comes to four years later, squares things with Vernita Green (Fox), then heads East on the trail of O-Ren Ishii (Liu). Two down, three to go. And give or take another hundred corpses.” – Time Out
Reviews
“A distillation of the universe of martial arts movies, elevated to a trancelike mastery of the material. Tarantino is in the Zone. His story engine is revenge.”
– Roger Ebert
“No one delivers that sheer, aneurism-inducing rush with the same intravenous efficiency as Tarantino.”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“I would argue that, in a bizarre way, Mr. Tarantino empowers women as no action-genre director before him ever has.”
– Andrew Sarris, Observer
“One of the thrills of KILL BILL, watching the willowy, fetching Uma Thurman turn into a sword-slinging Tilt-a-Whirl that spatters, scythes, slashes, lops and dices everything in its path.”
– Stephen Hunter, Washington Post