Kill Bill Vol 2

I will do what no other blog has done before! Review the second part of Kill Bill without reviewing the the first part!

Kill Bill Vol 2

Age Rating: 18+
Company: Miramax
Genre: Action
Running Time: Approx 131 mins
Region: 2



I'll start off by saying that this is the most geekiest film I have ever watched. Tarantino's style of 'KL' seems like as if it's been written by a 16-year old boy, cramming in as much gory details, swearing and general pop-culture in the dialogue as he can!
Continuing directly from the previous film, "The Bride" is on the trail to kill off the one who ruined her life - Bill. Driving onwards from the corpses of those who proved no match for her, The Bride has now only a few more to slaughter before her glorious tale comes to an end. She starts off by droning a monologue (plenty of this in this film!) that's bound to be an oft-quoted passage ala Pulp Fiction. Yep, this is Taratino style through and through! His trademarks are all there - and within the first 20 or so minutes we see a couple snorting up coke off a table. Classy!



The Bride quickly gets into action by attempting to kill off Bill's brother, aptly named Budd. Of course Budd is typical trailer trash material and an alcoholic to boot. He is ordered to kill The Bride, naturally he sits in his trailer waiting for the perfect moment to strike. This being so OTT, The bride rushes in and gets shot at close range by Budd's shotgun. Is she dead? Not exactly! Budd comes up with ingenius plan to bury her alive and makes a special coffin to throw her in. Being buried alive isn't the most fun way to die as The Bride finds out!
Meanwhile Budd phones up Elle Driver (cheap Pun-intended name) and demands some cold cash for The Bride's Uber 1337 Hattori Hanzo sword. Apparently, it's so rare..it's priceless! She relunctantly agrees and meets up with him at his home. The Bride aka Beatrix Kiddo via numerous flashbacks (while she is tied up in a nailed coffin, 6ft under) shows how 'that incident' happened in the church where Bill killed everyone. She was trying to marry a normal Dude and pregnant too fleeing from her assassin's job. Bill catches up and doesn't take too kindly to his 'Kiddo' knocked up for life! ;)



And then, yet another flashback! This time shows The Bride and Bill talking over a burning fire in the middle of nowhere, about a great master - Pai Mei. He has this secret technique and Bill sends The Bride out to learn from him. After some hilariously geeky dialogue and showing that The Bride can understand Cantonese and yet cannot speak it (?). Pai Mei takes her on as his pupil. The fight scenes was well done and OTT as usual - but The Bride only knows 'Japanese Samurai' style sword fighting..so then why does she suddenly fight in Chinese style? WTF! Inconsistency is the key word here Tarantino! Since this is Kill Bill, eveything is used for a later reason - laced with complete irony.
The Bride still trapped in the coffin eventually breaks out of it, via one of Pai Mei's wood breaking techniques and goes straight to Budd's place - but he's already dead! Elle Driver got the better of him with the help of Black Mamba snakes and information from the internet! ;)
Elle Driver takes The Bride's priceless sword and declares battle against her enemy. Not to be outdone, she takes Budd's samurai 1337 sword and fights against Elle. We find out that Pai Mei took out one of Elle's eyes - so obviously The Bride defeats Elle after OTT fight scenes by taking out her other eye! If that wasn't gory enough..she squashes the eye with her bare feet! w00t!



Eventually The Bride catches up with Bill and finds out..that he has her long lost daughter, that she thought was dead! Then the unconvential 'Happy Families' scene plays out, the daughter BB is allowed to watch Shogun Assassin out of all things! Lucky four year old kids these days! She has also inherited the killer instinct from her mother and father by killing off her goldfish and describing every detail FTW. The scenes at home tend to drag on a bit - so let's just say The Bride kills off Bill, in the lamest manner possible - using Pai Mei's ultra special Killer move 'Five Finger Palm Explosion'..Oh the irony!
I like how Bill just dies so crappy, after all The Bride's been through - it seems like a cop out! The ending was more sentimental than vengeful! I'm guessing that I'm not the only one disappointed by this, it's universally known that part 1 is better. Not to say I didn't like part 2 - it had it's moments, but the fight scenes were over in a flash and it seemed to lose all it's epicness through some g33ksp33k.

Overall: 6.5/10

Kill Bill Vol 1 would get a 9, this gets something more average! Let's end with a picture of the best villian since this side of Gogo from volume 1. Yay for Elle Driver! :D