Kill Bill Vol. 1 (DVD)

“Revenge is a dish best served cold” – Old Klingon Proverb ~ Details ~ Director: Quentin Tarantino Length: 111 minutes Certificate: UK 18 Company: Mirimax Films Main Actors: Uma Therman (The Bride); Lucy Lui (O-Ren Ishii); Vivicia A. Fox (Vernita Green); Daryl Hannah (Elle Driver); David Carridine (Bill). ~ Plot ~ 4 years ago in a Texas chapel a wedding party is brutally slain by 4 members of the Deathly Viper Assassin Squad led by a man named Bill. The Bride is lying in a blood stained wedding dress having been beaten before a gun is pointed at her head when she tells Bill the baby is his just ...

In a remote Texan chapel, an atrocity has been committed. A wedding party has been brutally slain, their bodies battered, bloodied and riddled with bullet holes. Still in her white wedding dress, the bride’s body is perhaps the most tragic. Dead from a gunshot to the head, the wretched woman lies on the floor like a human tomb for the unborn child that she was carrying. But whilst the infant has indeed been murdered, The Bride has not. Four years later she wakes from her coma and miraculously comes to life. The Bride is a member of an infamous team of assassins named the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, led by a man known simply as Bill. For reasons we are ...

In recent years ‘fusion’ cuisine has become very trendy, this is when flavours, spices, ingredients and cooking methods from different countries and continents are blended together to produce new and hopefully tasty dishes. Kill Bill Vol. 1 is the first instalment of an attempt by king of cool director Quentin Tarantino to create ‘Fusion’ Cinema and he has been very liberal with his ingredients. So is this a recipe for disaster or a gourmand’s dream? One major criticism of this film, which I have heard again and again, is that it is self indulgent and pretentious. I came to watching this as a huge Tarantino fan but with many reservations and yet I was ...