Tarantino Does the Impossible

Rating: Null/10 (4 May 2004)

Quentin Tarantino actually does the impossible: He is able to get David Carradine to act. And act he does, for one of the best and possibly ONLY performances of his career. The final chapter of the second volume is incredible...although predictable...
I also love the fact that they use Gordon Liu, not once, but twice in the movie. I have enjoyed the popular Chinese movie star with my two boys for a number of years and it was a hoot to see him playing Pai Mei; he did, in fact, play a student of Pai Mei in the movie, Fist of the White Lotus (a movie that one should see WITHOUT subtitles 'cause they are generally the same color as the background and completely invisible for much of the movie).
There were fewer interesting villians in this movie; however, it was the better of the two "volumes". Killing is all well and good in an action movie; but, the truly evolved action movie sends you out of the theater thinking...and not about how to rig up a motion detector, fertilizer-bomb to rid yourself of your neighbor's barking dog. You will remember the "Bride", Bill and O-Ren Ishii for quite a while...
I'd give this movie three and a half out of four stars....