Kill I Save II

Rating: Null/10 (2 June 2004)

Let me set the stage for you. My kid's away at Boy Scout Camp so my wife and I decide to go out to a movie. "What will we see?" we ask each other. And so my wife comes up with the great idea "Let's go see Kill Bill Vol. II. Now, I have enjoyed 2 or 3 Quentin Tarantino films in the past and this one was no exception. But then I got the bright idea of going to the video store and renting Kill Bill Volume I figuring, "That picture was pretty good. Wouldn't it be great to see the first and then be up on the whole story?" Well, I needn't have bothered. While the first volume of was a waste of time, the second film was a fun homage to a lot of films of the '60s and '70s and even '40s and '50s, the first film was nothing more than an excuse for some truly idiotic and gory violent scenes. I never understood anyone having a love for the grindhouse movies, particularly those of the 1970s. However, Tarantino loves those things and it is totally lost on me. My advice is to avoid the first part altogether unless you just like idiotic, bloody and utterly idiotic fight scenes every few seconds. I still don't see what was so great about that Japanese rock band (The 5,6,7,8's) singing with their bad accents. I didn't even think those chicks were so "hot."The one thing I will give to Volume I is an entertaining and witty fight scene between Uma Thurman and Vivica A. Fox just before the school bus arrives, but that's about it. Of course, you might get a little confused with the end credits of the second part is that many of the people shown in me end credits are not in Volume II