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KILL BILL (VOLUME 1)

SYNOPSIS: 
Assassin team member Black Mamba now known as The Bride (Uma Thurman), comes out of a four year coma following the ambush and massacre of her entire wedding party by her colleagues. She was pregnant but left for dead. Intent on revenge, one by one she tracks down her former colleagues, of the elite DiVAS (Deadly Viper Assassination Squad), each codenamed for a different species of poisonous snake – planning to leave the leader, Bill (David Carradine) to last. First, she heads for Pasadena to clash with Vernita Green, codenamed Copperhead (Vivica A. Fox). On her way to Tokyo for a confrontation with O’Ren-Ishii or Cottonmouth (Lucy Liu), The Bride stops in Okinawa to acquire a handmade new sword from master swordmaker Hattori Hanzo (Sonny Chiba). In Volume 2, The Bride continues her journey of vengeance.


Review by Louise Keller:
With its eclectic use of music and inventive mix of genres, Kill Bill is a striking and enigmatic revenge film visually and culturally rich and relentless in its action. Of course the big controversy lies not so much that the violence comprises an abundance of decapitations with gushes of blood, but by the fact that Quentin Tarantino’s much awaited fourth film has been made in two volumes. Surprisingly, even though the ...

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