An Improvement On the First

Rating: 10/10 (16 March 2020)

"Kill Bill" really needs to be viewed as a single theatrical entity. It was written as one long film. It was filmed as one long film. And, despite the split into two being appropriate from the terms of a theatrical standpoint, it's best viewed as one long film when being viewed in the home video market.
I loved the first volume of Kill Bill. It was a violent bloodbath and I loved every single second of it. Volume 2 improves upon the original, something I wouldn't have believed even possible. It speaks to the quality work of Quentin Tarantino, that he knows how to tell a story and he can keep his audience enthralled and unable to look away from the screen for hours on end.
This film is a lot lighter on the "action" than it is on the story, which is perfectly fine because Tarantino's story suffices nicely. Much like the predecessor, this film doesn't waste time, and there's never any point in the film that feels like it's filler. Everything flows well at the hands of a master storyteller who, more than perhaps anybody else in the business, knows exactly what he's doing.
Uma Thurman once again plays an absolute badass in the role, every bit as much as the first volume.
It felt like this volume had a little bit more of a focus than the first volume in the sense that it's a cat-and-mouse chase to narrow down the "Death List" until, ultimately, the title of the movie is achieved.
The only major criticism of note for this part would be that the ending wasn't as epic as it potentially could've been, but it's still a fantastic story so it's easy to overlook that minor personal criticism.