Ambitious, eclectic, but slightly less essential than the original.

Rating: 6/10 (22 December 2015)

Directly following up the first film, it meanders quite a bit before closing with an overall satisfying conclusion. The Bride escapes near- death several times, trains under the great Pai Mei and gets revenge on the people in her organization who tried to kill her.
Uma Thurman, in this film, gives arguably the best performance in Tarantino history. Atop from being every bit as ruthless, she plays the role of a mother looking for her child so convincingly well, that at the end, it inspires awe. But having already seen Kill Bill 1, it doesn't feel as novel. At the end of the day, both films are two halves of a whole: a pure escapist homage to old classic ninja flicks.