2004 Hit Film, Over 4 Hours Long, Was Just Named the 'Best Epic Thriller of All Time'

Some of the most popular films in the thriller genre feature stakes of epic proportions. On July 14, the publication Collider released a ranking of “the 10 best epic thrillers of all time,” which included stress-inducing movies with big, cinematic moments.

The films on the list featured 2025’s One Battle After Another, Zodiac, released in 2007, and 1991’s JFK. Quentin Tarantino‘s Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, which has a runtime of four hours and 41 minutes, took home the list’s top spot.

Collider referenced that the 2004 film was originally distributed as two separate movies, Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004). While Kill Bill: Volume 1 received a score of 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and Kill Bill: Volume 2 got an 84 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair sits at the perfect score of 100 percent on the site.

Quentin Tarantino Shared That ‘Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair’ Could Have Been Longer

In a 2004 interview on the talk show Charlie Rose, hosted by journalist Charlie Rose, Tarantino discussed writing the script for Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. He revealed that fans were almost treated to an even longer movie because he had so many ideas about The Bride (Uma Thurman) and the other Deadly Vipers.

“When I get my imagination started, it’s just really hard to stop it. And in the case of both, I mean, there’s all this stuff that I wrote for Kill Bill that I never even bothered typing it up. Because it already was big enough as it was. There’s all these different avenues I could have gone down and stuff,” said the filmmaker during the interview.

While speaking to Rose, Tarantino explained he purposefully used chapters to split up the film, which at the core is “a revenge movie.” He said the use of chapters enabled him to explore different genres, varying from Kung Fu movies to Spaghetti Westerns, within the film, differentiating it from other revenge movies.