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This Movie is Tizzight
Anyone who is a fan of Tarantino's work or just like's any action, movie see this movie now, see it even if you hate Tarantino or action films anyway it's too good. good acting, good plot, good dialogue (It's dialogue is weird but in a good way), and a funny movie. The movie is good all around. see it now. you will want to see kill bill vol.2 probably right after, buy both movies or rent both movies.

Very Cool!!!
This is by far one of the best movies you will ever see.Its cool,hip,fast,slow when it needs to.Its a movie with style.Writer-Director Quentin Tarantino just knows how to make great movies.

The story is simple.Its a story of revenge.Th Bride is shot down on her wedding day by her former employer Bill and her old friends O-Ren,Vernita,Budd & Elle.She falls in coma.When she wakes up from her coma she goes on murderous rampage of revenge against them.This film of course is in Quentin Tarantinos style of non linear structure storyline.

The casting is great.Even though we dont get to see Bill until Volume 2 it leaves you know a bit anxious to see him in the next one.David Carradine everyone will remember from Kung Fu.One of Tarantinos qualitys is casting people that have been having a bad run in films.In Pulp Fiction John Travolta,in Jackie Brown Pam Grier & Robert Forester and this one David Carradine.Uma Thurman as the Bride is perfect choice.I wont have never expected her do all the things she did in the film but was i surprised.And the Viper Assanation Squad greatly casted with Vivica A. Fox,Lucy Lui,Michael Madsen & Darry Hannah.

The action is mesmorizing and incredible especially the scene of "The House Of Blue Leaves".The dialogue is not what you would expect from a Tarantino film but good inoff for this.Another thing that is Tarantino trademark of putting great music in his films the music helps move the film and get to feel the groove of the it.Also the acting is top nocth.There is graphic violence in this film but not as much as people say i mean ive seen worse.Trust me this not the movie that will make you stop the film because you feel sick.This not Tarantino best film but it is his coolest to me.So stop whatever your doing my friend and go buy this film,you wont regret it.

But i have to tell you there have been rumors of a new special edition of the dvd coming in the near future so wait if you dont want to waste your money on buying it two times.

Don't You Wish Your Movie Was Cool Like Mine
First of all, I have yet to see the second one. Let's begin with what's just plain bad:

- DIALOGUE!!! Despite the lauds for Tarantino's dialogue, all the supposedly tough guy (girl) lines fall flat. They're all delivered as if they're crushing blows...but they aren't.

- CASTING!!! The key to action picks is that the actors actually look like they can kick butt, or are casually violent, or whatever fits their character. Jet Li looks like he's spent a lot of time fighting and training. Jackie Chan looks like he has a lot of fun while fighting and training. That's why they play those roles. Uma Thurman looks like a stick figure model who buys shoes on Sunset Blvd. She is well-trained and well-choreographed, but we just never believe she's that tough because, frankly, she isn't. Vivica Fox is ok for her part, which is just poorly written. Lucy Liu is similarly not intimidating. Much of her action sequences rely on long shot and dynamic cutting because she has no physical presence. The only character who really works is the Japanese school girl assassin, who despite her diminuitive size emanates casual violence.

Ok, so now what's really wrong with the movie: It's less than the sum of its parts. It's got cool action, a very long suffering hero, and it's full of Tarantino's broad array of film techniques. But non of these things are put to use properly - they're just thrown in to fit whatever seems cool.

The main character has no character. Her tone shifts radically and Thurman cannot pull it together - in some scenes she's angry, in some comical, in some she's honorable, in other's brutal. Whatever happens to be cool at the time. The movie has no consistent tone, which is a big error.

All of the cinematic references have no point. They're simply to prove that, yes, Quentin Tarantino knows more about movies than you do. The first 'movie about movies', Once Upon a Time in the West, used cinematic references which altered the outcome of well-known Western scenes in order to make a comment not only about the West, but about the genre of the Western. Tarantino seems to think that it's enough to be cool by putting in references to other movies.

Then there's the revenge theme. Again in the superior Once Upon a Time in the West, the mystery is why the main character wants revenge. That drives the watcher's curiousity. Kill Bill is driven by the mystery not of why she wants revenge, which is very clear, but why she was wronged in the first place. Of course, that question is completely not dealt with in Vol. 1 leaving the viewing experience almost completely hollow.

More importantly, it puts the honus of the movie not on the main character, who is no mystery, but her enemies, who are. And nothing is done to explain them in Vol.1. I am told that the explanation in Vol. 2 is 'cool'. Well, a better film maker would have played up the revenge theme in Vol. 1 by better defining Fox and Liu. We are given no reason why Liu went from seeking vengeance on one Yakuza boss to taking them over. Vivica Fox has no backstory. We could imagine a brilliant device whereby they themselves were somehow fulfilling their own revenge. Then Vol. 2 could have turned their burden from Vol. 1 upside down by delving into Darryl Hannah and Bill. Instead, this film simply doesn't stand alone because the burden of the film is unfulfilled.

Of course none of this matters because Tarantino has nothing to say and never will. He just wants to make cool stuff. So he makes a movie where he thinks up all the cool stuff he can and then throws them together. Some of it works, some of it doesn't. Owen Wilson is cool. James Bond is cool. Punk Rock is cool. Owen Wilson cast as James Bond playing the Punk Rock scene probably wouldn't be that cool. In fact, it would probably be pretty lame. So Tarantino sits down and says, "Ok, chicks are cool, chopsake is cool, samurai stuff is cool, yakuza is cool, anime is cool, tough talking black girls are cool, this music is cool" and he makes a movie. But Quentin Tarantino isn't cool, and so we have to sit there watching an uncool guy's coolness fantasy.

If Tarantino would make a movie about trying to be cool, then he might actually make something that speaks to the viewer. Instead, he tries to make movies about revenge, which he clearly knows nothing about - apparently revenge is flippant, occasionally comical or ridiculous, and occasionally obsessed with style.

In the end, you will only like this movie if you dig Tarantino's style. I don't.

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