- Film Review
- Reviewed By Alan Jones
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4 out of 5
Quentin Tarantino marshals a bewildering number of multi-genre references into a hypnotically entertaining whole in this violent martial arts revenge drama. The former video-shop worker's love of everything from Brian De Palma split screens and Eurotrash horror to Hong Kong exploitation and Ennio Morricone music finds its way into this guilt-by-association cinematic celebration. Giving a searing performance, Uma Thurman plays one of the Deadly Vipers, a crack assassination squad led by the Bill of the title (David Carradine). Left for dead on her wedding day, she falls into a coma, only to awaken four years later swearing revenge on her traitorous co-workers. Vol 1 deals with two members on her Death List Five: Vernita Green (Vivica A Fox) and O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu). Dripping with bloody ultra-violence and using startling flashbacks, knowingly fake dubbing and a quite brilliant anime section, Kill Bill is both a daring experiment in sampled cinematic language and scrounged style, and a gloriously enchanting work of neo-art in itself.
Plot Summary
Martial arts drama starring Uma Thurman and directed by Quentin Tarantino. A deadly assassin known as "Black Mamba" swears revenge on the traitorous fellow killers who left her for dead on her wedding day.
Cast and crew
Cast
- The Bride / "Black Mamba"
- Uma Thurman
- Bill
- David Carradine
- O-Ren Ishii / "Cottonmouth"
- Lucy Liu
- Elle Driver / "California Mountain Snake"
- Daryl Hannah
- Vernita Green / "Copperhead"
- Vivica A Fox
- Budd / "Sidewinder"
- Michael Madsen
- Sheriff Earl McGraw
- Michael Parks
- Hattori Hanzo
- Sonny Chiba
- Go Go Yubari
- Chiaki Kuriyama
- Sofie Fatale
- Julie Dreyfus
- Johnny Mo
- Gordon Liu
- Pai Mei
- Quentin Tarantino
- Preacher
- Bo Svenson
Crew
- Director
- Quentin Tarantino
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