Movie Review: Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)

When a movie gets split into two parts, has awesome cameo roles, and you don't know the protagonists real name, that can only be a movie written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Kill Bill Vol 1 is the first movie in the Kill Bill series. It follows Uma Thurman playing a role in which her former husband played by David Carradine massacres her and her new bride on her wedding day. This act sends her into a coma, and she reawakens four years afterwards to go and hunt down Bill (Carradine) and his squad. His squad consists of Micheal Madsen, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, and Daryl Hannah. Now in this point in history, Tarantino had only really done movies involving mobsters, drugs, and lots of violence and crimes. However, Kill Bill is stylized as a spaghetti western. This movie is really stylistic, so much in fact, that you can even decipher certain sets and see how they fit with Tarantino's goal of the movie. Kill Bill is a favorite film of mine, and what really gets me interested in the movie is the way the storyline is executed. Not only is the story stylish, but it contains really cheesy violence that used to only be seen in Clint Eastwood western films. At this point in time, we hadn't seen anything like that on screen since maybe the 1970s! That's impressive! All the acting in this movie is really good. Every character is so interesting because you have the worst villains and then you have the villians that are borderline good. Now if you are a Tarantino fan this movie is definitely worth viewing. It has everything that Pulp Fiction had, plus a few more new things that Quentin Tarantino hadn't previously introduced into his universe. My FAVORITE scene of all time in this movie is when the Crazy 88 goes up against The Bride. That was arguably the best part of the movie that everyone was waiting to see for the longest time. Overall, Kill Bill Volume 1 is an awesome movie that excels at being stylistic and unique. Three stars.