A fun romp in a pool of blood.

Rating: 7/10 (24 March 2004)

Kill Bill Vol. 1 is a fun movie, if you don't mind blood and the occasional slow stretch. It's difficult to call it full of gore, because the blood is so over the top it is not scary or disguisting but just funny. Trying to call Kill Bill Vol. 1 a real action movie would be like trying to call Army of Darkness a real horror movie.
I went to see this with a friend, and we laughed through most of the movie. So did most of the others, except for a few people who went pale and ran out the door.
It suffers from some issues with pacing, and a backstory sequence done in an anime style is either brilliant or obnoxious, depending on what you think of anime. It probably could have done better with a bit of tightening.
At present it is massively overrated in IMDB. If you got here by noticing it in the top 100, pass on it and look for another choice.