Kill Bill Vol. 1

Theatrical Release Date: 2003 10 10 (USA)

UPC: 031398134329

Summary: Perhaps the most highly anticipated film of 2003, Kill Bill Vol. 1 marked the return of renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino after a six-year hiatus. Re-teaming the director with Uma Thurman for the first time since 1994's Pulp Fiction, the film was originally the first half of what was to be a three-hour-plus movie before being split into two films. Thurman stars as The Bride, one-fifth of a team of assassins called DiVAS. When The Bride opts to leave the outfit for a life of marital bliss, it doesn't sit well with her boss, Bill (David Carradine), so he has her former cohorts, played by Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, and Michael Madsen, show up at the nuptials, leaving behind a blood bath. Miraculously, The Bride survives a bullet to the head and, four years later, she sets out for revenge against her four assassins and their employer. The story is concluded in Kill Bill Vol. 2, released six months later. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi

Category: Action

Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Kill Bill Vol. 1

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 04/15/2011

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 111 Minutes

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Perry Seibert

Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1 is the work of a master filmmaker falling in love with directing all over again. After a layoff of six years, Tarantino pulls out all the stops to serve up an entertaining shot of action cinema. The film has momentum and an infectious sense of over-the-top fun that manifests itself in the various styles Tarantino employs. The anime section is brilliantly conceived and, quite frankly, live actors performing the story would have probably kept the film from getting an R rating. The same is true of the decision to film in black-and-white during the final battle. Had the splattering blood and flying limbs been presented in color, the ratings board would probably have balked. However, by choosing to shoot the sequence in black-and-white, Tarantino gets around that problem and forces the viewer to concentrate more on the choreography and the editing than the bloodshed. Judging this film is dicey, as it truly is nothing more than the first-half of a movie that was always intended to be a three-hour extravaganza. Kill Bill Vol. 2 hit theaters the following year and answered the question as to whether Vol. 1 was an emotionally empty exercise in (admittedly highly entertaining) style(s), or the first half of an epic that contained hidden depths of character and nuance. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Cast and Crew: La Tanya Richardson  Actor 
5.6.7.8's  Actor 
Shana Stein  Actor 
Gordon Liu  Actor 
Quentin Tarantino  Actor 
Chris Nelson  Actor 
Bo Svenson  Actor 
Michael Bowen  Actor 
Samuel L. Jackson  Actor 
Caitlin Keats  Actor 
Lawrence Bender  Producer 
Quentin Tarantino  Director 
Quentin Tarantino  Producer 
Quentin Tarantino  Screenwriter 
Bob Weinstein  Executive Producer 
Harvey Weinstein  Executive Producer 
E. Bennett Walsh  Executive Producer 
RZA  Composer (Music Score) 
Lars Ulrich  Composer (Music Score) 
Erica Steinberg  Executive Producer 
Uma Thurman  Actor 
Lucy Liu  Actor 
Vivica A. Fox  Actor 
Daryl Hannah  Actor 
Julie Dreyfus  Actor 
David Carradine  Actor 
Michael Madsen  Actor 
Michael Jai White  Actor 
Chiaki Kuriyama  Actor 
Michael Parks  Actor 
Sonny Chiba  Actor 
Liu Chia-hui  Actor 

Country: USA