GENRE | Finally 'Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair' – Pure Uncut Revenge

"Tear that bitch apart!"

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The one and only Quentin Tarantino finally reassembles his fourth film (split in half but counted as one by its director and star), the two-volume Uma Thurman-starring revenge actioner into one four-and-a-half-hour magnum opus of uncut martial arts ultraviolence, retitled Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.

First released six months apart in 2003 and 2004, the auteur has long-promised a single edit release of his originally intended, ten-chapter cut of the mammoth genre epic (rarely shown until now). Finally, moviegoers can experience the House of Blue Leaves sword fight sequence against the Crazy 88 gang in glorious uncensored full colour, a previously unseen animated sequence, and the removal all cliffhanger elements for a more cohesive but still non-linear narrative structure.

For those familiar with Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Volume 2, world-class assassin Beatrix Kiddo (aka "the Bride") must get her sworn revenge after nearly being beat and shot to death at her wedding rehearsal by her former hitman squad, the "Deadly Viper Assassination Squad," featuring colourful, snaked-themed killers portrayed by Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and led by the suavely evil David Carradine as their head, the eponymous Bill. This cast alongside other character actors, former TV stars, genre performers, and entertainer outcasts always made for a supremely fine ensemble together.

Kill Bill experienced as one single Whole Bloody Affair reaches its peak of cinematic opulence in all of Tarantino's grand vision. His truly bloody scope unfolds like an ultraviolent episodic serial bursting with Eastern Asian film influences that doubles as a strangely moving ode to motherhood. Thurman as a total force of pure vengeance against those who wronged her and the daughter she thought lost is an operatic vessel of one of the more memorable female characters in twentieth-century film history.


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