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Kill Bill, Volume 1 (2003)
Front Cover Actor Back Cover
Daryl Hannah
Uma Thurman
Vivica A. Fox
Michael Parks
Akaji Maro
Chiaki Kuriyama
Lucy Liu
Julie Dreyfus
Michael Madsen
David Carradine
Movie Details
Director Quentin Tarantino
Producer Lawrence Bender
Writer Quentin Tarantino
Studio Disney / Buena Vista
Language English
Audience Rating R (Restricted)
Running Time 111 mins
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
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
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 645
Collection Status In Collection
Links Amazon US
DVD Empire
Product Details
Format DVD
Region Region 1
Screen Ratio 2.35:1
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
UPC (Barcode) 786936226997
Release Date 4/13/2004
Subtitles Chinese; Japanese; Korean; Spanish
Packaging Keep Case
Audio Tracks English Dolby Digital 5.1
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1
Extra Features
The Making of Kill Bill Vol. 1
Bonus Musical Performances by "The 5, 6, 7, 8's"
Quentin Tarantino Movie Trailers, including Kill Bill Vol.1