Ode to Superficiality vol. 2

Rating: 6/10 (9 September 2009)

Kill Bill vol. 2 is the uninteresting continuation of the uninteresting Kill Bill.
Although the characters continue to live their paper-thin existences, and the dialogue continues to be more cool than interesting, the viewer has the pleasure of finally enjoying David Carradine's performance as Bill, the only actual interesting character in this two-volume epic of superficiality.
Although his role is short, Bill is one of those characters that suggests an entire life outside the action we're watching on the screen, and I couldn't help wishing I saw more about his life than The Bride's repetitive revenge.
Otherwise, the movie offers nothing new. I will give Tarantino credit, however, for having introduced me to some new Ennio Morricone scores. Since this man can't even be bothered to hire composers to compose original scores, he may as well steal the best music around, and no one is better than Morricone. During the movie I was more excited whenever I heard a new track by Morricone than anything I actually saw.
So for widening my musical horizons a bit more, and for giving me Bill at last, I rate this movie slightly above the first volume. But it's still an uninteresting piece of cinema.