The Bride wakens from a four-year coma. The child she carried in her womb is gone. Now she must wreak vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her - a team she was once part of.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writers: Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writers: Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah
Storyline
The lead character, called 'The Bride,' was a member of the Deadly Viper
Assassination Squad, led by her lover 'Bill.' Upon realizing she was
pregnant with Bill's child, 'The Bride' decided to escape her life as a
killer. She fled to Texas, met a young man, who, on the day of their
wedding rehearsal was gunned down by an angry and jealous Bill (with the
assistance of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad). Four years later,
'The Bride' wakes from a coma, and discovers her baby is gone. She,
then, decides to seek revenge upon the five people who destroyed her
life and killed her baby. The saga of Kill Bill Volume I begins.
User Reviews
Well,ladies
and gentlemen,it's a new millennium and Quentin Tarantino has got a new
movie for us. After changing the popular film landscape in the 1990's
with the classics "Reservoir Dogs","Pulp Fiction",and to a much lesser
extent,"Jackie Brown",Tarantino spent a half a decade in
hibernation,accompanied by little more than a television set,a movie
projector,and collection of Johnny Cash records and a bong. But now he
is back after a six year hiatus with "Kill Bill",a thrill ride with the
grand style of his earlier films and a brilliant tribute to those Shaw
Brothers martial arts flicks of the 1970's and the action heroes of that
same decade with includs Charles Bronson,Telly Savalas,Burt
Reynolds,Clint Eastwood,Fred Williamson,Steve McQueen,Jim Brown and
James Coburn. "Kill Bill" is also a chockablock of references to bygone
movies like "Master Of The Flying Guillotine","The Wu",and the
television shows like "Hattori Hanzo". This contains many of the
elements that have made his earlier films so entertaining and he
continues the tradition of that to.
You have the wicked wit,the
funky score,the hip-retro cultural artifacts and lots of non-stop,brace
in your face action that is not to be missed. Also once again,he has
divided the action into chapters with voiceover narrattion to boot,plus
he's even got a new trick up his sleeve in which the story is told with
some fancy Japanese anime. Basically the film gives much of the screen
time to actress Uma Therman and she carries the film with the assurance
of a golden diva that she is. The film rises and falls with her,and
Thurman pulls that off beautifully in one of the best performances of
the year. Thurman plays a professional assassin,attached to a criminal
group of bodacious martial arts-trained killers(Vivica A. Fox,Daryl
Hannah,and Lucy Liu)who are lead by the unseen,shadowy Bill(unseen in
the first installment played by David Carradine). Among the crew she was
called Black Mamba,but otherwise simply known as The Bride because she
was betrayed on her wedding day when they gunned her down and left her
and her near-term child for dead. But she gets her revenge against the
ones that tried to kill her and from there the story is a thrill ride of
sorts leading up to the next so expect the unexpected. However,a lot of
body parts get slashed here and some of it is very gruesome includes
scenes of decapitation of heads and a half a head,a leg in severely cut
off and a Achilles Tendon gets slashed,a eye and some fingers get
chopped off too. This film also has brought back some really good
Kung-Fu stars from the 1970's which includes Sonny Chiba,aka "The Street
Fighter",and so many more....... I'm surprised that martial arts
actress Michelle Yeoh is not in this one. And by the way,what Quentin
Tarantino movie wouldn't be correct without his main man Samuel L.
Jackson in the role as The Organ Man. Jackson,however was in two
Tarantino films including the role he should have gotten the Oscar for
in "Pulp Fiction",which also starred Thurman and opposite Pam Grier in
"Jackie Brown".
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