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Amazing
This movie was.....breathtaking to say the least. I LUV the amount of power they put on the women in this movie- all of them are kickass and deff. have that "dont-mess-with-me-attitude". The fact that this movie also has a plot is great- keeps you entertained and eagerly awaiting the second one.

Most of the fight scenes were tight...with the exception of the huge one in the end where it is obvious that half of the dudes are just swinging their swords in the background when they obviously could have killed her.

Deff. an awesome movie you could keep watching over again and again.

ugly, twisted, evil, sick and poorly edited
the first time i watched this i walked out of the theater partway through the animated portion. The beginning scene is cringeworthy and so unreasonably and unnecessarily graphic - (why? why must tarantino do this? do we need to SEE such graphic imagery? Ever heard of subtlety? implication?) but i figured i'd keep on watching cuz maybe the story would come through or SOMETHIN. it didn't. i went back later and gave it another shot, but i wasn't the least bit impressed.
This film is pretty sick. the animated portion is just so.. that anime stuff is truly nasty. If you don't know, there's a large animated portion of the film that proceeds to show - horrifyingly - how one of the assassins comes to be the assassisin she is. I seriously wonder at what sort of a mind enjoys this stuff. But aside from the violence, the films story (and its manner of telling) sucked on its own merit. The bride (thurman) gets revenge on the people that shot her, one at a time. for some reason tarantino jumps back and forth in time. it serves absolutely no purpose. You remember the end of Pulp Fiction the moment you realized Jules and Vincent were in the same restaurant as Pumpkin and Honey Bunny? Right before "Garcon!! Coffee!!"? Nothing like that genious collision of storyline here. And the action scenes are utterly lame - save for the very first one where the Bride fights Vivica Fox's character in the house. THAT was very well executed fight scene. Aside from that scene, the stuff here looks like a bad high school play. you should watch the basically flawless wire-fu on display on a film like Crouching Tiger and compare it to what you see here - Thurman looks exactly like there is a wire pulling her back and forth over a Hollywood soundstage. She very obviously does not know karate. At times she seems bodily surprised that hers was being pulled in a diection she was not prepared to go. It's ridiculous. Not the least bit exhilarating as you hope to see in a kung fu flick. (remember that awe you felt as a kid when you watched Bruce Lee karate his way through a picture? You were justifiably awestruck because Lee was an artist. Thurman is what we call a 'novice')
Furthermore this flick is edited terribly. We get loooonnnng drawn out scenes where nothing much happens. The worst such scene is the one where the bride goes to the karate masters attic to get the sword. We see her approach the attic... locate the sword.. approach the sword.. admire the sword... pick up the sword.. and so on. As if T. is trying to add depth to his narrative simply by making individual scenes longer. That doesn't work. You just end up with a boring film. You gotta give us something to CHEW on T!

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned...
In 2004, Hollywood was full of controversy, from the Bush-bashing film "Fahrenheit 9/11", directed by the gelatinous Michael Moore; to Mel Gibson's Biblically accurate epic "The Passion of the Christ"; to the ultra-violent "Kill Bill Volume 1" and "Kill Bill Volume 2" from cult favorite director Quentin Tarentino. Even though all of these films were controversial in the public and media's eyes, though who really cares about anything Michael Moore does, and personally Mel Gibson's movie was not controversial for any reason, that is unless you don't believe in God. The only film(s) that was controversial to me was Quentin Tarentino's ultra-violent, `Kill Bill' 2-part series. Initially the movies were intended to be just one long film, except after test audiences felt the movie was too long after clocking in at around 4 ½ hours, director Quentin Tarentino felt it best to break them apart into 2 films. This decision was probably wise for two reasons, one is that audiences wouldn't grow tired of sitting, and second, it allowed for more money to be made off of this new franchise.

"Kill Bill Volume 1" begins the story of vengeful character known as, `The Bride' (Uma Thurman). During her wedding rehearsal `The Bride' and her husband-to-be are going through the motions of the wedding when a team of assassins enters the small church and slaughters everyone in sight. The slaughter, was ordered by the leader of the assassins, a man named Bill (David Carradine), who just so happens to be the former lover and mentor to `The Bride'. After surviving the slaughter and awaking from a long coma, `The Bride' begins her quest for vengeance, by killing every member of the assassin squad, until she reaches their leader and gets the opportunity to `Kill Bill'.

As I said, out of the big three movies of 2004, the `Kill Bill' series were the only controversial ones, and that was only because of how unapologetically violent and depraved they were. Truthfully, all the people who were upset over the violence in "The Passion of the Christ", but were ok with the violence of "Kill Bill Volume 1", need to have their heads examined. In "Kill Bill Volume 1" the violence is the only thing propelling the story forward, truthfully there isn't much of anything compelling in the basic plot of the film to drive this movie at all. Whereas, in "The Passion of the Christ" the violence, though realistic compared to `Kill Bill's' over-the-top bloodshed, is not the main focus of the movie. The main focus is Christ's final 12 hours on Earth, and what He went through to redeem humanity from itself and the love He had for all of us, instead of the mindless, quest for vengeance with elaborate death scenes that was featured in the popular phenomenon that I will never understand, that is "Kill Bill Volume 1".

As a whole, the movie "Kill Bill Volume 1" was ok, it wasn't terrific, and truthfully I don't see what all of the fuss over it being one of the greatest movies of all time is all about. But even with my gripes aside, I have to admit the acting was great, the story was somewhat weak, but the actors all made it work for them, which helped tremendously. The action was energetic and entertaining to watch, but was over-the-top and somewhat redundant in places. I must qualify these statements though, I am not a real big fan of Quentin Tarentino's work, I thought "Reservoir Dogs" was good, but I wasn't impressed with "Pulp Fiction" or "Jackie Brown". If you are a fan of Tarentino then you will probably enjoy "Kill Bill Volume 1", and more than likely will be among the many that felt it was one of the best movies ever made.

Overall, "Kill Bill Volume 1" isn't the greatest movie, but it's not the worst either. It's at least worth seeing both "Kill Bill Volume 1" and "Kill Bill Volume 2" one time.

"Kill Bill Volume 1" is rated R for violence, language, and sensuality.

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