Kill Bill: Vol. 1 - BLURAY, Digital, 4K ULTRA HD

Came quick with no issues. Good movie too

Kill Bill is what is hailed as the much anticipated "4th film by quinton tarintino". If you don't know who quinton tarintino is, then I feel sorry for you. For the rest of us I need only mention the titles "Resevoir Dogs", "Pulp Fiction", And "Jackie Brown" and then you will understand the anticipation this new film has for us big time QT fans. So as the long-awaited 4th film, we find Tarintino taking a new dirtection... firslty, this is Kill Bill vol 1, with Vol 2 having just been released in theaters as of this writing. Seeing the first volume immediatley shows us that what QT had blanned was large, stylish, and visionary! The fact that The lead star Umma Thurman actually particiapted in much of the conceptual work behind the film only serves to further display why this film came together so brilliantly. Kill Bill, as it's appropriatley called is a tale of revenge at it's most basic. Umma Thurman Plays an ex Assassin, who was betrayed at her wedding by her former boss. The plot throughout the movie leaves some gaps to be further explored in the next film, but plenty of detail and background is given to all the characters throughout the course of the movie (a trademark of tarintino is brilliant character depth). Once comming out of a comma, "The Bride" as she is called (we never get to hear her name in the movie - it is bleeped out!) goes on a path of vengence that will leave a thick trail of blood in it's wake. Harking back to old martial arts films of the 70's the mood is sometimes made to feel corny intentionally. Oddly enough not only didnt this bother me, it made the movie more fun and more enjoyable. What's amazing is QTs abillity to switch moods in the film from being epicly dramatic, and almost philisophical in nature (like many old sammuri movies); to being goofy, and corny and almost poking fun at itself. Also we are treated to scenes that have wild western feels, as well as refrences to other old genres. The film is filled with LOTS to dwell on and think about. Beyond that we have QT's typical directorial excellence. Vissually, Kill BIll is probably one of the finest works I've ever seen. The movie has more style, flair, and wit than almost any other I can think of. QT just has a way of always finding some new place to put the camera... some new trick to use that u werent expecting. An entire 10 -15 minute scene in the movie is fully animated in japanese style! The use of black and white and other little artistic ideas of QT make this movie an absolute pleasure to watch. If nothing else this has to be one of the most creative and unique films you'll ever see. Finally, this is QTs first attempt at making an action orientated film. The fight scenes are really well done, and in the climactic battle we see umma thurman single handedly fight 60 plus men (all with sammuri swords) - and slaughter them all! Even the first time through, I had to watch that scene twice! QT also has a way of bringing the action together with many moments that are (typical to his style) nothing more than witty diologue. IN the end, some people wont like this movie just because it's too "wierd" for them, or just not their kind of film. Those who dont like QTs style are likely to not be impressed. But for me, and many others, Kill Bill Vol one was an AMAZING movie, on many levels at once. The variety of themes, the amazing visual style, and the excellent audio (thanks to the RZA from Wu Tang Clan who produced the soundtrack)... this movie really surprised me by just HOW good it was.

If you’ve never seen Kill Bill I’d love to be in your position right now because it’s so good the first time, it’s good every other time since too. You’ll definitely wanna binge watch 1 & 2, they are amazing. The stunts, blood and fighting choreography are next level. Quentin Tarantino is the master, check out all his stuff if you haven’t. Pulp Fiction, Django, and Inglorious Bastards are great movies to start with.

I missed "Kill Bill, Volume 1" when it was in the theaters (you have to move quickly up here in the Northland because we have only two movie theaters with a limited number of screens and films can disappear before you know it), but this turned out to be to my advantage. Quentin Tarantino did not plan on "Kill Bill" being told in two "volumes" but Miramax decided that a four hour revenge film would be a bit much and consequently we end up with "Volume 1" coming out on DVD the same week "Volume 2" opens up in the theaters. So having seen the Bride (Uma Thurman) take care of the first two names on her "to do" list I can treat tonight as an intermission and go see "Volume 2" tomorrow. This is good because if I had to wait four months to see the second half of the film I would be pretty ticked off. Once upon a time in El Paso, Texas a wedding party is slaughtered execution style. However, it turns out that the Bride, who is pregnant, is not dead but in a coma. Four years later she wakes up in time to save herself from insult being added to her ingury. After dealing with a few annoying details, such as somebody trying to rape her comatose body and being unable to get her legs to move, the Bride puts together her list of people to kill: (1) Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox), (2) O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), (3) Budd (Michael Madsen), (4) Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), and (5) Bill (David Carradine). There is more that happens in this film than eliminating the first two list (and since there is a Volume 2 telling you that the Bride survives Volume 1 does not constitute a spoiler), such as an anime telling us how O-Ren Ishii became the Queen of the Tokyo underworld. But Tarrantino is all about how the Bride takes out her first two victims and the triumph of style as substance, especially when style means fountains of blood gushing from human beings that would make Akira Kurosawa proud. You have to keep in mind that Tarantino has seen and committed to memory more movies than any other human being on the face of the planet. The following is a list of movies and television series that are supposedly referenced in "Kill Bill, Volume 1": "The Lodger," "Scaramouche," "The Wings of Eagles," "The Magnificent Seven," "Yojimbo," "Tsubaki Sanjûrô," "The Manchurian Candidate," "Marnie," "Honey West," "Tôkyô nagaremono," "I Lunghi giorni della vendetta," "Da zui xia," "Modesty Blaise," "The Green Hornet," "I Giorni dell'ira," "Le Scandale," "Ironside," "Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro," "Kurotokage," "Da uomo a uom," "La Mariée était en noir," "Twisted Nerve," "C'era una volta il West," "The Wild Bunch," "Siu kuen wong," "A Clockwork Orange," "Hannie Caulder," "Black Mama, White Mama," "The Last House on the Left," "La Novia ensangrentada," "Il Grande duello," "Joshuu sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô, "Shurayukihime," "The Doll Squad," "Tian xia di yi quan," "High Plains Drifter," "White Lightning," "Shura-yuki-hime: Urami Renga," "Truck Turner," "Uomini duri," "Crash che botte!," "Onna hissatsu ken," "Gone in 60 Seconds," "Thriller - en grym film," "Du bi quan wang da po xue di zi," "Profondo rosso," "Switchblade Sisters," "Black Sunday," "Eaten Alive," "7 note in nero," "Hao xia," "Yagyû ichizoku no inbô," "Game of Death ," "Grease," "Wu du," "Patrick," "Day of the Woman," "Hattori Hanzô: Kage no Gundan." "Paura nella città dei morti viventi," "Resurrection," "Shogun Assassin," "Si wang ta," "Makai tenshô," "Escape from New York," "Xian si jue," "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan," "Tenebre," "The Professional: Golgo 13," "Scarface," "Gai shi ji hua," "Year of the Dragon," "Wong ga jin si," "Hard to Kill," "3-4x jugatsu," "Miller's Crossing," "Hong fen zhi zun," "Unforgiven," "Reservoir Dogs," "Fong Shi Yu II: Wan fu mo di," "Tai ji zhang san feng," "True Romance," "Pulp Fiction." "Jûbei ninpûchô," "From Dusk Till Dawn," "Full Tilt Boogie," "Kite," "Weißkreuz," "SF:Episode One," "From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money," "Proboscis," "Wo hu cang long," "Batoru rowaiaru," and "Koroshiya 1." I was happy I recognized over two dozen of the films on that list, and that is not even close to a passing score percentage-wise. For all I know every single scene and shot in the film is lifted from something else, but the onslaught of references is apparently so relentless that everything old becomes new again, especially without a commentary track when QT can tell us the origin of each and every homage. At this point what is most memorable to me is watching O-Ren Ishii and her posse walk glide into the House of Blue Leaves with the soundtrack giving them energy and the final showdown in an exquisite garden at night with gently falling snow where O-Ren in her white kimono and the Bride in her yellow biker suit do their dance of death with Japanese steel. With "Pulp Fiction" Tarantino made his impression upon our ears with scene after scene of great dialogue. No wonder the soundtrack for that film had clips of some of what came rolling off the tongues of the actors (usually Samuel L. Jackson, who plays a corpse in this film). But with "Kill Bill, Volume 1" Tarantino's blood feast is mostly for the eyes. Imagine what he can do if he every puts those two together in a single film. Until then, we can see how the Bride deals with the rest of the people on her list. This film is not for everybody, but then what Quentin Tarantino film ever was?

This won't be a movie review. You've either already seen it, or, if not, you can scroll through other posts here and read all about it. I also wanted to be clear that this is in regards to the 4K release, as Amazon, in it's infinite wisdom (eye-roll emoji here) puts every review for every iteration of a movie all together. (As an aside: Would you people who leave one-star reviews because the mailman was a day late, or your DVD case had a dent just stop, please? Your complaint can be registered elsewhere without bringing down the star ratings other customers might pay attention to.) Anyway, back to the movie. I ordered parts 1 and 2, having only ever owning the movies on DVD. I never upgraded to blu-ray. The 4K is mind-blowing! The colors pop, the black & white sequences are sharp as h*ll, and I don't think it's looked this good since it was initially in the cinema. If, like me, you have a version you've had for several years, and wanna step things up, grab the two on 4K. You will not be disappointed.

...slice 'em and dice 'em. Well, it's fun to watch. It isn't very deep, but it's fun. It's a pretty simple-minded plot: The Bride (a/k/a Black Mamba), very well played by Uma Thurman, is hit by a death squad on her wedding day and left for dead in a coma. Four years later, she screams herself awake, kills off a thug who is violating her in her comatose state, and the joyride begins. The way the movie rockets along, we wonder if we're watching a movie or reading a comic book. The Bride is out for revenge on the death squad that killed all nine members of her wedding party ("They should have made it ten," she gloats, as she whacks her first victim, Vernita Greene, a/k/a Copperhead, played by Vivica Fox; all these assassins are named after snakes, for some reason) in front of her four year old daughter just off the school bus. Then she's off to find her nemesis, a gorgeous Chinese-Japanese killing machine named O-Ren Ishii (Cottonmouth), played by the lovely Lucy Liu. Their boss behind the hit, Bill, is mostly unseen and unheard, and evidently we have to wait for Part Two to see why he ordered the hit to begin with. In the meantime, there's gore galore all over the floor as The Bride mows down everyone who gets in her way. Some of the action is so over the top that we wonder if we're supposed to take it seriously or say "yeah, right" and laugh out loud, as when O-Ren's posse of hired thugs take on The Bride all at once and all end up dead or mutilated. Uh-huh. The film's cinematography is jaw-dropping, zipping from color to black/white to anime and back to live action; we're reminded of the mixed sequences that Oliver Stone used so effectively in "Natural Born Killers". As for style vs. substance, "Kill Bill" is weighted so heavily in favor of the former that substance is almost an afterthought. There's been a lot of comparison between this film and "Pulp Fiction"; there's blood and gore liberally splashing the screen in both movies, but "Pulp Fiction" was a masterpiece of great plot (convoluted though it was), great acting and great dialogue. "Kill Bill" ultimately boils down to great style, a lot of noise, and one fight after the next. On a rating scale, I'd have to give it five stars for style and two for substance which averages out to 3.5 stars, but it's great fun to watch so I'll round it off to four. Let's just hope the story gains in substance in Part Two. Judy Lind

Great movie all the way through

What an AMAZING 4K restoration! I was gradually giving up on 4K restorations of old movies/anime since 1) they usually look slightly darker than original blu rays on a calibrated TV and 2) usually have exactly the same audio track quality. Watched Kill Bill Vol 1 yesterday and man! From the start I was shocked by how good the opening song “Bang Bang” sounded - just right! I couldn’t believe it sounded so good before, so when I finished the movie I put in the blu ray disk and yes - muffled bass, ruined minds and highs, awful. All other songs sounded fantastic on 4K disk (it has a variable audio rate vs fixed for blu ray by the way). I then compared the picture quality of the two and I could NEVER say that 4K disk looks darker or brighter than each scene demanded; on the contrary blu ray scenes look washed out in comparison, but 4K was always right on the spot. What impressed me even more and I don’t know how they achieved it, but motion looks amazing on 4K Dolby vision disk and like blurred nonsense in comparison on blu ray - and this is given that I have exactly the same motion processing settings for both modes on my LG OLED TV.

Muy buena película.

Colis bien reçu et emballé soigneusement Merci bien pour le respect des délais d'attente Et pour la livraison rapide efficace soignée et de qualité Produit conforme aux attentes et à la description C'est un film que je cherchais depuis très lgtps car je ne l'avais plus depuis que je l'avais prêté et la personne ne me l'a jamais rendu Kill bill vol 1 Un classique culte du cinéma avec la belle et remarquable actrice Uma Thurman qui est fantastique dans ce rôle où elle donne tout Prestation brillante où elle joue corps et âme avec un grand charisme Satisfaite de mon achat

La primera vez que la vi me pareció muy mala, realmente no comprendía que era un homenaje a varios subgeneros de artes marciales y cine japones de samurais, luego me quedó como un gusanillo, porque hay frases y diálogos geniales, y la volví a ver, y ya me gustó, y luego la vi una tercera vez y me encantó. Y la compré. No tiene que ver con Pulp Fiction, es necesario comprender y querer el genero que homenajea para apreciarla. Carradine esta fantástico, pero Madsen es un fuera de serie. Uma tampoco está mal, pero a Daryl Hanna le sacó oro Tarantino. Peliculón, según como se mire jejeje.

KILL BILL: VOLUME ONE is the long-awaited "4th Film" from director/writer Quentin Tarantino,I went to see this when it came out in cinemas back in October 2003 and I must say, I was very impressed. So impressed that I went straight back in to see it again. YES I THOUGHT IT THAT GOOD! The Bride (Uma Thurman) is put into a coma after been badly wounded by her former boss, Bill (David Carradine) of the Deadly Vipers Assassination (D.V.A) squad. When she awakens from the coma, she vows to get her revenge. So she plans to take down the members of D.V.A first. This is not as violent a film as people say. It's not for the faint-hearted nor the weak-minded. But this film has action! One of the main highlights of the film is The Bride's fight during the climax which is done in well lit snow fall. This is entertainment popcorn style film is a brilliant homage, this time to Kung Fu movies, Spaghetti Westerns, and action flicks generally. One breath-taking action scene after another steals your breath away. Terentino constantly keeps you off balance as the scenes are showen out of sequence. "The Bride" (Uma Thurman) faces dozens of Yakuza henchmen, and single handedly defeats them, a la (JANE LEE), Terentino, never takes the story too seriously, and just gives you amazing spectacles of battle, and bizarre humour. He keeps pushing the envelope further and further. "Watch this" he dares you, and you're hooked to the screen, as each scene is more bewildering, ridiculous, hilarious, OUTRAGOUS, then the last one. I bet you will watch the DVD again & again, I know I will. If you don't like Chinese violent films why would you watch this then run the film down? What one judges violent others disagree. This is all done tongue in cheek a homage to Chinese kung fu films. It worked for me perhaps it will not work for you, if you like Bruce Lee films this is for you. If you don't like Bruce Lee kung fu films then don't watch it. Sadly we still await the release of the DVD & Kill Bill Vol II comes out in April.

Todo bien.