Kill Bill - Volume One [Blu-ray]

Kill Bill - Volume One [Blu-ray]

Kill Bill - Volume One [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Gordon Liu, Michael Madsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Sonny Chiba, Uma Thurman
Brand: Lionsgate
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-09-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax Films
Product features:

Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: French (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (PCM)
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Run Time: 111 minutes
Actors: Uma Thurman, Sonny Chiba, Samuel L. Jackson, Gordon Liu, Michael Madsen

Movie Reviews of Kill Bill - Volume One [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: "Silly rabbit...Trix are for kids..."
Summary: 5 Stars

The Good Things
*The Blu-Ray has quite good video quality. Maybe a little grainy in some parts, but other parts are phenomenally clear and crisp.
*Great sound quality. Sounds clearer and more balanced than previous DVD release.
*Includes a 22-minute making-of featurette, a live performance by the 5, 6, 7, 8s, and a bunch of trailers. It's not a whole lot of features (in fact, the same as from the DVD), but at least it has something.
*Excellent action and fighting. Lots and lots of blood.
*Good story laid out in a very interesting way (although it may be too erratic for some).
*Excellent group of characters. Great acting.
*Great writing; even though it's limited, it's fun and there are lots of memorable lines.
*Visuals and filming style is smooth, clear, and vivid.
*Impressive use of different medias to achieve unique effects (color film, black and white film, and animation).
*Interesting music.
*Lots of homage to westerns, kung fu, and anime. These elements are blended together to make a very unique picture.

The Bad Things
*It's not the "Wholy Bloody Affair" edition.
*The extreme violence scared me away at first; definately not for the squeamish.
*Some disturbing parts (but this can be a good thing, because it makes the film edgy).
*Some absurd, unrealistic parts (but this can be a good thing too, because it makes the film stylish and fun).

Despite being one of the bloodiest movies I know, it has become one of my all-time favorites. The style of it is smashing; even when there is no action, the movie is very immersive. I've come to appreciate the characters and the story, in addition to the vivid style. Highly reccomended to anybody who likes martial arts or action in general, and doesn't mind some blood.

Whether or not it is worthy of replacing the DVD is entirely up to you. I liked the movie enough to go for it, and at the very least, I am pleased with the picture/sound quality. I'll still want to grab the "Whole Bloody Affair" edition (you know, unrated director's cut with shedloads of special features, a color fight scene, and other crud) whenever it comes out, but considering that it never existed in the first place, I am not one to complain. Heck, I might even keep this copy, so I have the theatrical cut. Altogether, I don't agree with the others who complain. It's still a good movie, and it's of good quality.

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Summary of Kill Bill - Volume One [Blu-ray]

UPC:786936715545
DESCRIPTION: Kill Bill: Volume 1, the critically acclaimed film from groundbreaking writer and director Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown), now packs even more of a punch in high definition on Blu-ray disc! Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction), Lucy Liu (Charlie s Angels, Chicago) and Vivica A. Fox (Two Can Play That Game) star in this astonishing, action-packed motion picture about brutal betrayal and an epic vendetta. Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, The Bride (Thurman) emerges from a coma and decides it s time for payback...with a vengeance! Determined to finish the kill-or-be-killed fight she didn t start, she hunts down her former boss, Bill (David Carradine), and the deadly squad of international assassins who perpetrated the bloody attack. END

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

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