After a layoff of six years, Tarantino pulls out all the stops to serve up an entertaining shot of action cinema.

Rating: 8/10 (6 May 2010)

Kill Bill is brutally bloody and thrillingly callous from first to last. Waking up after four years in a coma, an assassin (Uma Thurman) wreaks her revenge on the colleagues who betrayed her.
Director Quentin Tarantino's homage to 1970s 'wuxia' martial arts flicks is little more than a slew of dazzling choreographed fight scenes, but his virtuoso technique is constantly in evidence. A self-described 'roaring rampage of revenge', Volume 1 makes good on the promise, barely pausing for breath.
The overall storyline of Kill Bill — a woman seeks revenge on a group of people, crossing them off a list one by one as she kills them — is adapted from Lady Snowblood, a 1973 Japanese film in which a woman kills off the gang who murdered her family. The Guardian commented that Lady Snowblood was "practically a template for the whole of Kill Bill Vol. 1". Lady Snowblood was adapted from the manga of the same name written by Kazuo Koike.