Shouldn't have split the Bill

Rating: 3/10 (27 April 2004)

When a 135-minute movie only contains 25 minutes' worth of entertainment, you know you've been had - especially when it's the last part of a single story and delivers nothing by way of a climax. On the way to its interminable denouement, we're subjected to some of the most pointless scenes ever committed to celluloid (Samuel L Jackson' cameo, Budd's boss, Bill's pimp father-figure).
Vol. 1 had flaws, but at least it had balls. Vol. 2 is just weak. Not only that, it's horribly self-indulgent, often boring, and full of supposedly profound but ultimately meaningless dialogue. What happened to all that Pulp Fiction quotability, QT?
Kill Bill could - and should - have been one rip-roaring film with an ending to blow us all to high hell. Instead, both of its drawn-out halves fizzle out like cheap fireworks to leave a disappointing whole.