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Kill Bill: Vol. 1

2003 1h 51m
Action Crime
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8.0/10
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

"Here comes the bride."

Top Billed Cast

Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman
The Bride
Lucy Liu
Lucy Liu
O-Ren Ishii
Vivica A. Fox
Vivica A. Fox
Vernita Green
Daryl Hannah
Daryl Hannah
Elle Driver
David Carradine
David Carradine
Bill
Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen
Budd
Julie Dreyfus
Julie Dreyfus
Sofie Fatale
Chiaki Kuriyama
Chiaki Kuriyama
Gogo Yubari

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

T tmdb13206453 Verified TMDB Critic
2017-06-10

This is the movie he made after Jackie Brown. I thought I might just point that out. A big budget, larger scale action blockbuster. This is the one that would change the direction of Tarantino's films. And honestly, it might be my favorite besides Pulp Fiction.

This movie oozes with style and beautifully choreographed action. This movie has an anime section akin to Japanese anime. That's some cool stuff. Even the non-action parts are some really good stuff. Like the guy from the old Street Fighter movies as Hatori Hanzo and making the Bride's sword. And the fantastic soundtrack. The great o...

J John Chard Verified TMDB Critic
2017-10-04

Not so hush hush but very much on the QT.

After being gunned down on her wedding day by her former colleagues, assassin Black Mamba (Uma Thurman) rouses from a four year coma with only one thing on her mind, revenge! Striking up a death list of five, she sets off for bloody retribution.

Quentin Tarrantino writes and directs what is in all truth, a homage to all the cinema conventions close to his heart. Think an amalgamation of chop-socky, sexploitation, samurai, spaghetti Westerns, anime and cop shows of years past, and you get the heart of Kill Bill. A film that was so epic in scope it...

W Wuchak Verified TMDB Critic
2018-07-19

Uma Thurman as an anti-superheroine

RELEASED IN 2003 and written/directed by Quentin Tarantino, "Kill Bill: Vol. 1" is an action/thriller/fantasy starring Uma Thurman as The Bride who seeks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her, a group of which she once belonged. Her journey takes her from El Paso to Pasadena to Okinawa. Vivica A. Fox, Lucy Liu, ravishing Julie Dreyfus and Michael Madsen appear as various assassins or accomplices.

"Kill Bill” is a creative mish-mash of 60s-70's Bond-isms, Spaghetti Westerns and martial arts flicks, but with modern production values. It...

R rsanek Verified TMDB Critic
2022-01-19

Interesting usage of anime to tell O-Ren's back-story, but I wasn't really a fan of the cartoonish blood splattering and gratuitous fight scenes....

C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic
2022-10-01

Awakening from a lengthy coma, the expecting "Bride" (Uma Thurman) embarks on a lethal killing spree to avenge herself on those responsible for killing her fiancée and to find out just what happened to her unborn baby. She has a past - formerly a soldier in the "Deadly Viper Assassination Squad" - she formerly dated it's leader "Bill" (David Carradine) - and so in theory has her work cut out for her as she seeks her revenge. Well, except that is, that the aforementioned "DVAA" could not hit a barn door with an Howitzer. Despite their overwhelming numbers, their supposedly expert training and ...