This movie is true modern art.

Rating: 10/10 (13 October 2003)

This movie was an astonishing visual treasure. Tarrantino's deep enthusiasm with the martial arts genre shines through in the story, but it is masterful use of story that haunts you after you leave the theater. Tarrantino is unflinching when it comes to showing true grit. There is a rape scene that instills the viewer with a complex array of emotions; fear, disgust, rage, and, ultimately, triumph. Most directors shy away from visuals that make the audiene feel vulnerable, but Kill Bill puts you right in the same state you felt when you first watched Marsellis in that white-supremacist dungeon in "Pulp Fiction". Beyond the Tarrantino edge, visuals in "Kill Bill" are superlative, an absolute visual treat. Battles are fought in delicate snow-dappled gardens and against simple shadow-on-backdrop 3D-screens. His focus on even the faces of the warriors when they are dying and killing are gorgeous. And there is a scene done completely in incredible animation. Tarrantino has spent his life ingesting film, and he has in turn expressed something that is both a wonderful homage to his influences and a totally original sensation.