Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2014)

Figuring out which Kill Bill is better is pretty tough. The 2nd may be. Quentin Tarantino strikes back with a vengeance in Kill Bill Vol. 2! The 2nd Kill Bill is entirely different from the 1st Kill Bill. Kill Bill 1 is action-filled and stylized at a fast pace. Kill Bill 2 is loaded with lengthy dialogue and suspenseful at a slow pace. Both volumes just so happen to be great. They're only different kinds of movies yet still one single movie. The 1st volume has the more centralized story with a more standard story progression while the 2nd volume has a more drifting story focus with a less standard developing story. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 isn't completely crafted as presentably well as Kill Bill: Vol. 2 but Kill Bill: Vol. 1 has way more substance to its story, while Kill Bill: Vol. 2 has less substance to its entire story but is presentably crafted better than Kill Bill: Vol. 1 but Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is also the more difficult movie to presentably craft completely because it has better material substance. The 1st Kill Bill has overwhelmingly more edited detail to the picture and story. The 2nd Kill Bill has a more complete technical value to the picture. Kill Bill 1 has more action sequences with exciting exaggerated effects. Kill Bill 2's action sequences are more naturally toned down. Kill Bill 1 keeps things generally on the surface. Bill 2 goes into more depth. Kill Bill 1 is better, but Kill Bill 2 is so close that it doesn't even matter, they're both great! I can say that Kill Bill 2 should have used more action dominant plot points and twists and turns; the movie feels to fail at impressing Vol. 1's adrenaline pumping action. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 does though have its fair share of seriously sick substance though! The moment when The Bride is captured and buried alive by Budd through to the moment when The Bride snatches Elle's eye out is all simply delicious cinema enjoyment! The beginning, before about Budd and the wedding chapel is very good, and the end, after about Bill and Beatrix Kiddo and B.B. is very good, but all of that middle, the middle about Budd and The Bride and Master Pai Mei and Elle Driver and the lonely grave of Paula Schultz and the cruel tutelage of Master Pai Mei and The Bride and Elle's sweet samurai sword fight in Budd's small little trailer is Kill Bill Vol. 2 at its most unstoppable best! Uma Thurman is unreal, my God! Daryl Hannah, David Carridine, Michael Madsen, Lucy Liu, and Vivica A. Fox makeup the Deadly Viper Assassin Squad, and they are amazing in it! Kill Bill 2 is sure great, but the way it chooses to steer away and try to expand upon The Bride's revenge on Bill main plot line is done admirably and interestingly and terrifically but pointlessly. It should of just stuck to the whole point of the matter, The Bride's revenge versus Bill, and delivered the goods like the 1st one did with an epic and over the top, action-intense, Quentin Tarantinoesque final showdown ending with Bill vs. The Bride! All that said, Quentin is the man, and I cannot wait for the 3rd Kill Bill because the 1st 2 Kill Bills are really, really awesome!!