Faster Pussywagon Kill Bill!

Rating: 8/10 (18 October 2003)

It's been a while since Quentin Tarantino last directed a movie. And Kill Bill Volume 1 is a worthy effort.
Many of the Tarantino trademarks remain - non-linear chapters, visceral violence and cool music. But where this film differs from his previous films is that the dialogue has been reduced and the stylized, operatic violence has taken it's place in centre stage.
As before, Tarantino, seems to specialise in taking trashy, exploitation cinema influences and mixing them into a spectacular whole. With this film he has done it again by using 70s martial arts movies, in particular, as his primary source of inspiration. The result is mesmerizing at times. There is even a Japanese Anime segment, which fits in despite the fact that it should never work!
This is another addition to a great catalogue of work by one of the best modern filmmakers.