The Best Movie Assassins

Few can do murder on the big screen quite like Quentin Tarantino. When it came time for the auteur filmmaker to pen his fourth film, he turned to Uma Thurman to bring his femme-fatale movie assassin to life, to incredible results.

Thurman portrays The Bride, whose real name is Beatrix Kiddo, in both Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Kill Bill Vol. 2, stacking up one of the most intimidating kill counts in all of cinema.

Through her journey of bloodthirsty revenge, Kiddo systematically eliminates each of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad before locating and executing Bill, who she comes to learn is the father of her child.

Tarantino has long maintained that he’d like to return to the franchise to write and direct a third volume, in which Uma Thurman’s daughter, Stranger Things‘ Maya Hawke, portrays the now-adult daughter of Beatrix Kiddo and becomes an assassin in her own right.

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Quentin Tarantino has expressed that his upcoming movie, The Movie Critic, will be his final cinematic outing, meaning we may never get the chance to see Thurman’s iconic movie assassin again.

Of course, the filmmaker also considers both volumes of Kill Bill to qualify as a single film, meaning there may be hope for a return to the franchise in the form of a technicality.

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