Kill Bill Vol 1 film review

Review

Cast & crew

Kill Bill Vol 1

(2003)

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 animé 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. AJ

Contains violence, swearing.

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Running time

106min

Country of origin

Genre

Part-animated Martial arts Drama

Alternate title

Kill Bill Volume One

Original language

English / Japanese

Screenplay

Quentin Tarantino, from the character created by Q & U [Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman]

Theatrical distributor

Buena Vista

UK cinema certificate

UK cinema release date

October 2003

Subtitling information

In English, Japanese with subtitles




awards information


	Award	Category	Name	Nominee/Winner

	British Academy Film Awards 2003	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role	Uma Thurman	Nominee
	Golden Globe 2003	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama	Uma Thurman	Nominee