Calming Calamity

Rating: 8/10 (23 April 2013)

This is not a sequel. It is the second half of the the first installment. This may have been why so many who loved Vol 1 are disappointed in Vol 2. The whole thing is better viewed as a whole rather than 2 parts. It is not 2 separate Movies it is 1 and really can only be analyzed, appreciated, or enjoyed as such.
This doesn't even try to capture, revisit or even indulge the beginning for it is the conclusion. The Bride is not running out of breath, she is running out of antagonists. Like an advancing Army after breaking through the front lines and moving toward the Leaders safely tucked away and removed from the carnage.
The extended Tarantino dialog is back and we have more Story here from Movie Modernity's gifted Story teller and the action is more up close and personal as is the emotion. It is more tender and internal. Quite the opposite of the external extremes of Vol 1. It is a satisfying wrap to the Director/Writer's Rap and should not be seen or examined apart from or out of sequence from the first half.
In the end it has a calming calamity and has a Personality of its own as there is a portrayal here of the other side, the Feminine side, if you will, as the Assassin/Lover/Bride/Mother comes full circle and returns to the Human Race. It is where the Grind House seques into a Home.