Kill Bill, Vol. 1
2003
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Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Sonny Chiba, Julie Dreyfus
After Jackie Brown Quentin Tarantino returns to original material, so to speak, with this pastiche of kung fu and samurai films. Uma Thurman plays a female assassin who wants to get even with the colleagues who tried to kill her. There are impressive action scenes and some enjoyably over-the-top bloodshed, but this is only half a movie, as the entire back story is left to Vol. 2.
