Quentin Tarantino once again proves why he is one of the best directors of the 21st century!

Rating: 9/10 (30 August 2015)

For me, Kill Bill was the movie that put Quentin Tarantino on the top of my list for favorite directors of all time. I mean this movie has it all: a brutal revenge story, perfectly choreographed fight sequences, and LOTS of blood.
The movie literally starts out with a bang, and from that point you know your in for a treat. The movie starts out with a great fight sequence that shocks you just 10 minutes into the movie. From there Tarantino effectively uses his nonlinear storytelling to piece together The Bride's back story, and helps provide a reason for her motives. The flashbacks help establish The Bride as an excellent main character, who really connects with the audience on an emotional level. Once the story returns back to the present, the audience feels such a connection with the Bride that they feel compelled to root for her as she hunts down each of her adversaries. But a hero is only as good as its villain, and luckily, Tarantino doesn't forget to include a formidable, and equally dangerous villain. The main villain even gets her own back story leading up to the climax of the film which also ends with bang.
However, Kill Bill Vol. 1 does suffer from a few problems. The pacing of the movie seems uneven at times, as it spends so much time in the past explaining backstory that you get the feeling that by the end of the movie, The Bride really hasn't done much. Also in typical Tarantino fashion, the movie does contain a number of scenes that sometimes proved to be a little too weird for my taste, but hey, thats just his style!
Kill Bill Vol. 1 has it anything and everything you could expect from a Tarantino style samurai movie. Looking past the few flaws of this movie, the viewer really gets to see the raw talent of Quentin Tarantino.