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Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, Vol. 1 is trash for connoisseurs. From his opening gambit (including a "Shaw-Scope" logo and gaudy '70s-vintage "Our Feature Presentation" title card) to his cliffhanger finale (a teasing lead-in to 2004's Vol. 2), Tarantino pays loving tribute to grindhouse cinema, specifically the Hong Kong action flicks and spaghetti Westerns that fill his fervent brain--and this frequently breathtaking movie--with enough cinematic references and cleverly pilfered soundtrack cues to send cinephiles running for their reference books. Everything old is new again in Tarantino's humor-laced vision: he steals from the best while injecting his own oft-copied, never-duplicated style into what is, quite simply, a revenge flick, beginning with the near-murder of the Bride (Uma Thurman), pregnant on her wedding day and left for dead by the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (or DiVAS)--including Lucy Liu and the unseen David Carradine (as Bill)--who become targets for the Bride's lethal vengeance. Culminating in an ultraviolent, ultra-stylized tour-de-force showdown, Tarantino's fourth film is either brilliantly (and brutally) innovative or one of the most blatant acts of plagiarism ever conceived. Either way, it's hyperkinetic eye-candy from a passionate film-lover who clearly knows what he's doing. --Jeff Shannon
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| upc: |
0786936226997 |
| title: |
Kill Bill, Volume 1 |
| theatricalDate: |
10-10-2003 |
| stars: |
Uma Thurman
Lucy Liu
Vivica A. Fox
Daryl Hannah
David Carradine
Michael Madsen
Julie Dreyfus
Chiaki Kuriyama
Sonny Chiba
Chia Hui Liu
Michael Parks
Michael Bowen
Jun Kunimura
Kenji Ohba
Yuki Kazamatsuri
James Parks
Sakichi Satô
Jonathan Loughran
Yoshiyuki Morishita
Tetsuro Shimaguchi |
| purchase date: |
07-09-2006 |
| publisher: |
Miramax |
| published: |
13-04-2004 |
| price: |
$19.99 |
| net Rating: |
4 |
| MPAA Rating: |
R |
| minutes: |
111 |
| last lookup time: |
179361120 |
| genre: |
Thrillers
DTS
Quentin Tarantino
Revenge |
| fullTitle: |
Kill Bill, Volume 1 |
| features: |
Anamorphic
Color
Dolby
Widescreen
NTSC
2.35:1
DTS |
| director: |
Quentin Tarantino |
| currentValue: |
$3.99 |
| created: |
179361120 |
| country: |
us |
| aspect: |
DVD |
| asin: |
B00005JMEW
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