Volume to this one, lowers a lot

Rating: 8/10 (12 March 2014)

A slower, less, less, less, less bloodier Bill, which will have a few blood craving fans, sold short like I was. I'm with them. This one lacks the powerful intensity and ferociousness of the first, it's hard to imagine this was connected to Volume One, let alone the same movie. With two down and three to go, our seductress of vengeance Bea.... (sorry, shouldn't of said the name) continues her bloody (gees I love that word) quest n those who wanted her dead. The way the victims die, where pathetic. I was expecting real bloody scenes, and the five finger technique was a joke, yet this is still an enjoyable ride, but just not as good as the first. Carradine is an asset here where we see much more of him like Madsen who plays Bill's younger wilder brother. Hey would we want him any other way. Kill Bill 2 is more a sedate action flick, even the massacre in that church where Bea bought it, the violence there was veiled as we only heard shooting coming out of the church. May'be it was Tarantino's intention to make this part less violent, but still we can't get our head around, that this is adjoined to the first all out bloody outing. With a few dead stops, we have some lengthy scenes too with this one, some philosophical involving Bea being trained by an grumpy old fart of a master, when I think of all those stone steps, I get tired. Too is Carradine's scene near the end, as he lectures little Bea's daughter about death. And the Tarantino humour hasn't gone astray either, the scene with Larry Bishop lecturing Madsen in his office about work ethics was my favourite scene. Michael Parks, incidentally plays another character, not notorious sheriff Pete McGraw, who bought the farm in From Dusk To Dawn. With all the critiques, call them inadequacies, just mentioned, this still comes as good solid entertainment, in a well told tale that only it's master Tarantino can tell.