Show Forges Another Slash Hit o fi 5 II h 1 r M y y r Photo Courtesy of kill kill com Allen Johnson Staff Writer When you start off a film with a Klingon proverb youcan you youcan youcan can be assured to expect the unexpected Uma Thurman Dangerous Liaisons Pulp Fiction The Avengers stars as a character known as The Bride who is part of an assassination group employed by the enigmatic ic Bill Then on The Brides Bride's' wedding day the group turns on her They attack the wedding party leaving all for dead including including ing The Brides unborn child The Bride survives s the attack and sleeps in a coma for 5 years She awakes and vows revenge This pounding heart-pounding thrill ride has a simple enough plot line a revenge tale that we have seen many times before- before but never like this He pays heavy homage to literally literally literally lit lit- dozens of and kung-fu kung films The most obvious being Uma Thurman's yellow bike suit reminiscent of the outfit worn by Bruce Lee in his last film The Game of Death and of course there is the famous trunk shot With typical typical typical ical fashion he weaves humor into the campy violence Limbs fly and heads roll and somehow you dont don't feel bad for laughing There is the ever popular popular popular pop pop- ular Hollywood fascination of mystifying the Japanese katana beyond belief With a sword forged especially for her quest Uma Thurman propels herself deep into the Japanese underworld underworld underworld under under- world hacking and slashing her herway herway herway way through countless minions She frequently performs feats suited more for a Matrix world but hey- hey its it's The story is told in chapter format which makes style of storytelling flow more like a book There are frequent flashbacks and sections of the story told out of sync with the time tune linea line- a la Pulp Fiction You'll notice that this is Volume 1 Volume 2 set to be released early next year An action the studio thought would be necessary and profitable If Volume 1 does well at the box office they will reap the rewards If not they could have a potentially potentially potentially poten poten- financial bomb on their hands Regardless of the box office sales- sales this film will flourish flourish flourish flour flour- ish in the art film community Time will tell if the general public public public pub pub- lic is ready for one like this Bottom line some will love it some will hate it Its It's a beautifully beautiful beautiful- ly shot and edited dance of death backed by a fantastic soundtrack and lots and I mean lots- lots lotsof of blood Charlies Charlie's Angels aint got nothing on The Bride |