Review: Uma Thurman rules every brutal minute of the 4½-hour 'Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair'

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Credits at the end of “Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair” attribute the creation of the Bride assassin to “Q & U” — stark-white capital letters that stand in for Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman . The coy initials look a little like something a romantic kid might carve into a tree. Fittingly, the four-and-a-half hours leading up to them feel like a sheaf of love letters. It’s an ode from a director to his star, to the chop-socky classics that inspired it and to every film nut willingly spending their day in a theater.

Big words. But the saga of the Bride, a.k.a. Beatrix Kiddo, a.k.a. Black Mamba, and her vengeance upon her lover Bill (David Carradine), the boss of her former D