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Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)


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Four 1/2 out of Five

Movie

Rating: R (violence, language and brief drug use)
Length: 136 minutes

Video

Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic)

Audio

ENGLISH: DTS 5.1
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1

Captions

Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish

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Plot

The story continues from Vol 1 with The Bride finishing her task of revenge (watching Kill Bill Vol. 1 first is a must before viewing this film).

Pros

The fight scenes and The Bride's tactics were handled in a more clever fashion than the first film where she just walks in and kills. The scenes showing her in training and how she used her training was especially entertaining (you'll want to watch Vol 1 again closely and you'll catch a thing or two you might have missed the first time). I loved the character that Daryl Hannah played in this film and how she pulled it off; she was in the first movie but in a much more limited role.

Cons

This film moves at a slower pace when it comes to the action and the ending seemed a bit too anticlimactic after everything that has already happened. Then again, maybe not considering whom all was in the house.

Extras

  • Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making Of
  • Kill Bill Vol. 2 Premiere - CHINGON Performance
  • Deleted Scene

Recommendation

Tarantino toned down the colors and eliminated all of the spewing blood from Vol 1; this film has a different and more subdued look. This is a fun and even more cerebral film than its predecessor. These films are just lacking something in comparison to his previous works; maybe it has to do with these seeming to be much more geared for commercial success. Now all we have to do is wait for the Special Edition Box Set to be released giving us all the extras that these discs did not.

Director

Actors

David Carradine - Bill - 'Snake Charmer'
[Hell Ride, Kill Bill Vol 1]
Jeannie Epper - Mrs. Harmony
Sid Haig - Jay
[The Big Doll House, Brotherhood of Blood, The Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses, Jackie Brown]
Daryl Hannah - Elle Driver
[Blade Runner, Grumpy Old Men, Grumpier Old Men, Kill Bill Vol 1, Northfork, Wall Street]
Samuel L. Jackson - Rufus
[Basic, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars Episodes I/II/II, S.W.A.T., Snakes on a Plane, Sphere, True Romance, Unbreakable, xXx, xXx: State of the Union]
Caitlin Keats - Janeen
Chia Hui Liu - Pai Mei
[Kill Bill Vol 1]
Michael Madsen - Budd - 'Sidewinder'
[Bloodrayne, Die Another Day, Donnie Brasco, The Doors, Hell Ride, Kill Bill Vol 1, Mulholland Falls, Reservoir Dogs, Sin City, Species, Wyatt Earp]
Stephanie L. Moore - Joleen
Christopher Allen Nelson - Tommy Plympton
Michael Parks - Esteban Vihaio
[From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter, Kill Bill Vol 1]
Shana Stein - Erica
Bo Svenson - Reverend Harmony
[Heartbreak Ridge]
Uma Thurman - Beatrix Kiddo - The Bride, 'Black Mamba'
[The Avengers, Batman and Robin, Be Cool, Kill Bill Vol 1, Paycheck, Pulp Fiction]

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