A big improvement over the first.

Rating: 10/10 (29 June 2006)

Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Darryl Hannah, Gordon Lui, Michael Parks, Larry Bishop, Bo Svenson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeannie Epper, Sid Haig and Perla Haney Jardine.
This is an excellent movie in every way. It's about ex assassin Beatrix Kiddo going to kill the last two assassins, Budd (Madsen) and Elle Driver (Hannah) and then kill Bill. The reasons that I enjoyed this over the last is that this movie puts action and style second to good writing and character development, yet it still has great style. Where the first was a Japanese action movie, most of this is like a Spagetti Western. The first film was more like a hard core action flick, where this one had some time to breathe in between, and was more like "Jackie Brown" in it's quietness but still very entertaining. Some other positives are Gordon Lui who played a different tole in Kill Bill 1. He plays her teacher Pei Mei in a long flashback. Michael Parks is also very good as Bill's 80 year old pimp father figure.
My rating: 10/10 stars. 138 mins. rated R for violence, language and drug use.