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The Bride, a former member the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad seeks revenge for the death of her groom and unborn child at the hands of her associates. Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure Rating: R Release Date: 25-JAN-2005 Media Type: DVD
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
