Kill Bill - Vol. 2 on DVD (2004)

Style over substance, but I like it!

steve from didsbury , 30/09/2004

Another QT film. Slick as ever. Chick who likes to kill people gets revenge on the people who tried to kill her. Eh, that's about it.

Lots of nice sound, stunningly shot, some great fight scenes and next to no plot. I suppose it is an attempt to echo a genre which, frankly, most people wouldn't watch. Think Pulp Fiction without the brilliant story.

Entertaining, yes, but it seems that Quentin is losing his way a bit. Peronally I think he should dump Uma who ain't all that and a bag of potato chips.

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Poor by comparison

A customer from Blackpool , 10/03/2005

Not nearly as good as Vol 1, shame, because the previous film was brilliantly structured. This just dragged.

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Excellent

Koro from Birmingham , 01/10/2004

A lot of peoople were dissapointed witrh the 2nd part, howver you have to remember it is the 2nd part of one film! This act is awesopme, spaghetti Western spliced with Eastern philosophies. truly and East meest West film

Mucn more subdued and chrachter driven than the first...but brilliant nevertheless

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Revenge is sweet

dk from Kent , 08/03/2005

The first instalment of this ultra-violent revenge saga was a tribute to 70s Kung Fu movies. Volume 2, which picks up the story where part one left off, is more of a homage to the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, complete with snatches of Ennio Morricone?s gorgeous music. This means it looks and feels very different to the first movie - not necessarily better or worse, just different, but still very much a Tarantino film.

The final face-off with Bill is surprisingly brief, low-key and poignant (at last the Bride gets to meet her daughter), but there is plenty of action before we get to that point. The dazzling swordfight between Elle Driver (the superb Daryl Hannah) and the Bride in the confined space of Budd?s caravan is particularly enjoyable. Other highlights include Gordon Liu in a hilarious sequence as the splendidly bearded martial arts tutor Pai Mei.

At more than five hours for the two volumes, the thin story is definitely overstretched, and the script stinks, laden with tiresome dialogue that aims to sound portentous but is mostly just witless. But overall, Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2 are a pair of supremely stylish, outrageously violent and downright exhilarating cinematic treats. Well worth seeing.

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didn't watch

K from Grantham [Highly rated reviewer] , 19/02/2008

i didnt watch this film, im not into these sort of films

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Better than 1

A customer from Kent , 03/11/2004

Brilliant. This is so much better than the first film, less weird cartoons and freaky blood spatterings. The plot all came together, with enough action to keep it interesting. Daryl Hannah makes a great psycho, and there is a particularly gruesome (but she does ask for it) part with her in it. I even found myself routing for Uma, who I'm generally not a big fan of.

I guess you need to watch the first film to follow the plot, but if you can get someone to tell you the story so far, give it a miss and go straight to this one.

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