Reviews of Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004
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Kill Bill volume 2 feels like a spaghetti western, which is really different than the first film. It's slower, more atmospheric, and has a much darker tone. In terms of dialogue and character development, I think volume 2 does a much better job of keeping me riveted. There's much less action, but it's more meaningful because of the reveals and the clear character motivations. Some of the best work Tarantino's done in terms of developing characters is with Elle Driver(Darryl…
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This is my Part 1 review, but seen as they are part of the same movie, and both AMAZING, it works.
Tarantino's masterpiece.
He may make many more brilliant movies, but he will never top this.
I include Part 2 in this, as it is the same film. It just, sadly, had to be re-edited and split in two due to studio demands. Kill Bill contains some beautiful film making. It comes across as a big dumb animal, but it…
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Favourite bits:
Elle Driver's eyeless tantrum
Bill explaining that Clark Kent is Superman’s critique on the whole human race.
Elle's 'gargantuan' speech
Bud getting scolded by his bossNow days I can take or leave the Pai Mei scenes with all that strange beard twirling.
Of all QT films, this one doesn't hold up on a lot of repeat viewings, I've definitely overdone it, but all the same - great film to revisit in several years time.
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After building myself up for this all week (yes, I have no life), does it live up to the standards of the first part?
Well, it definitely does in terms of the brutality and bloody-ness, including one scene in particular making me wince and yell "What?!?!". The soundtrack and dialogue (yeah, I'm kind of a broken record when it comes to Tarantino films) are just as brilliant as in the first and the cast is just outstanding, with David Carradine's…
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It may not be the diabolical conclusion that many fans may have wanted, but in a storytelling sense, it is almost perfection. By the end of the first film I was dying to get the answers, but when the second portion starts, it almost feels like Tarantino wanted you to know who everyone is, before you even get to see for yourselves. I was a little let down in that aspect, but the betrayals, the writing, the action, and the…
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I’m often told that one must view the two Kill Bill movies as one single entity and to judge them as such. I’m afraid I can’t do that. If we’re going to be charged twice to see two different parts of the same story then those two parts must be judged by their separate merits. Whilst Kill Bill, Volume II is less of a sequel and more of a continuation of the same story, there is no denying that…
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What I have to say about Kill Bill I've already said in my entry for Vol. 1. All I'll add here is how cross it makes me to be talking of volumes in the first place. Y'know those wonderful exploitation movies you like to relive so much Quentin, those violent fantasies you like to think of yourself as bringing forth into the mainstream? There's a good reason the best of them never passes 90 minutes.