IMDb top 250: #153
Rating 10/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writers: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Vivica A. Fox & Lucy Liu
"This - is what - you get - for fucking - around - with Yakuzas! Go home to your mother!"
What better time to watch this movie than the 10th anniversary of it's release. Quentin's 4th film Kill Bill, is the story of The Bride and her mission to seek out and kill the members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad who attacked her and left her for dead on her wedding day. KIll Bill is just another classic on the list of flawless films made by Mr Tarantino. The movie is beautifully shot and written and edited and acted and scored.
As with all Tarantino films the writing, especially the dialogue is outstanding; instantly quotable and perfectly delivered by his actors. His direction is beyond superb, each and every shot you can imagine was thoroughly thought out and is executed brilliantly. It just looks so damn good. His homage to Kung-Fu, Spaghetti Westerns and Anime is done perfectly, right down to the smallest detail. Yes it's excessively violent and a bit sick and twisted but the beauty is it's done with such a great sense of humour! QT has given us a gorgeous, intelligent action film and I love it more after each and every viewing.
The cast are outstanding; Uma Thurman carries the movie brilliantly and I truly believe her efforts should have been rewarded with an Academy Award Nomination for Best Actress. She is amazing in her dialogue filled scenes and that blood-curdling scream she lets out when she believes her baby is dead would have been a perfect clip to play at the Oscars. Uma is just as believable in her fight/stunt scenes and gives it everything she's got, a great assassin. Whilst Vivica A. Fox doesn't have a lot of screen time, she certainly packs a punch when she is on screen, her "chat" with The Bride is fantastic and has provide my friends and I with enough quotage to last a lifetime. Lucy Liu is fierce as O-Ren Ishii and her head waving scene is just classic Tarantino! My favourite supporting character is Daryl Hannah's Elle Driver but more on her later!!
Again, as with all Tarantino productions the soundtrack is AMAZING and every song chosen fits it's scene perfectly. I love Tarantino's way of having the song play at just the right time. There are various techniques used in this movie and they're carried out exquisitely, the Anime used during the Origins of O-Ren Ishii is beautiful and fits the feel of the movie and the use of black and white to colour is great. The Showdown at House of Blue Leaves chapter is just EPIC in every sense of the word and looks just as awesome now as it did 10 years ago. It's classic QT!!!
I would have put Kill Bill: Vol. 1 higher up the list than it actually placed but it totally deserves it's place on both Empire's & IMDb's greatest movie lists. It's exceptional filmmaking. Now Quentin, it's been 10 years, how long do we have to wait for Nikki Bell to exact revenge on The Bride?
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