Overview
- The four-and-a-half-hour presentation opens on over 1,000 North American screens, with select 35mm and 70mm engagements after years of only festival and repertory showings.
- Tarantino restores and expands material, including a lengthened animated O-Ren Ishii chapter and a fully colored, more explicit House of Blue Leaves sequence.
- The film is reconfigured as one feature with a 15-minute intermission and revised placement of a key narrative reveal to align the audience with the protagonist.
- A non-canonical, post-credits Fortnite short, The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge, premiered in-game and plays in theaters, featuring Tarantino voicing Bill and an Uma Thurman avatar, drawing mixed reactions.
- Critics commend the cohesion of the single cut and spotlight Uma Thurman’s performance, with early Rotten Tomatoes scores debuting at 100% from critics and 99% from audiences based on initial counts.