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	Kill Bill: Volume 1
	Quentin Tarantino Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, David Carradine, Michael Parks, Julie Dreyfus, Sonny Chiba 2003		"Kill Bill: Volume 1," the first half of the long-awaited fourth film from writer/director/cinephile Quentin Tarantino, is a purist's delight. There are arty set-ups, facile dialogue and an anime sequence, but Tarantino ("Pulp Fiction") has made the ultimate martial-arts revenge movie — all violent action, buckets of gore and snide quips — and a tribute to the Asian filmmakers behind the genre. Using a time-shuffling, non-linear method, "Kill Bill" divulges the adventures-in-mayhem of a cold hired killer played by Uma Thurman. This limber female dervish, rendered comatose by an assassination attempt on her wedding day, awakens years later and goes after the five perps behind the attack: deadly ex-colleagues personified by actors Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen and David Carradine. "Kill Bill" doesn't diminish its frenzied tempo by bothering with anything as fussy as plot intricacies or character development. If it feels empty or unfinished, there's a surprise in the coda to offer a hint of something deeper and tantalize you into seeing "Volume 2." A stunning ballet of butchery, "Kill Bill" is a bloody orgy for lovers of celluloid flash and Hong Kong-style fight choreography.