Quentin Tarantino - Ranking His Films From Worst To Best

6. Kill Bill Vol. 1

With those three out of the way, the top six Quentin Tarantino pictures are going to be a far more positive experience, with each succeeding entry a frequently brilliant film in some form or another (there are flaws, too, but for the most part these are all legitimately fine movies).

We start here, with Kill Bill Volume 1, the first half of Tarantino€™s Kung-Fu Samurai revenge saga. Starring an incredible physical performance by Uma Thurman (more on her in the Kill Bill Vol. 2 entry), Kill Bill is most notable for the Crazy 88 action sequence, which surely serves as one of the four or five greatest set-pieces in cinema history. The scene is an absolute masterpiece of choreography, set-design, soundtrack, and blocking, and the bloody mess the stage has become afterwards is a sight to behold.

Elsewhere, there€™s a brilliant - and clever, too, because there€™s no way a sequence dealing with such explicit paedophilia could€™ve been filmed otherwise - animated passage involving O-Ren Ishii€™s (Lucy Liu) origin story, and some quintessential Tarantino iconography, with the director subverting Bruce Lee€™s classic get-up into The Bride€™s yellow bike suit, a now-classic piece of cinematic attire in its own right.