Not with a bang...

Rating: 9/10 (16 April 2004)

Tarantino left himself with a hell of a problem by dividing this story in two.
For one thing, he had left almost all the rest of the back story for the second movie. Oh yeah, and a lot of the character touches.
So that leaves Part 2 at a disadvantage as far as pacing is concerned. Admittedly, few movies could keep up the pacing of the first part without completely leaving any pretense of plot behind.
So we get to alternate between current time and flashbacks... so much so that, at first, I got a little tired of it. But unlike Part 1, the flashbacks made more direct sense.
And we finally get to meet characters that were waiting offstage in Part 1, like Bill and his brother, Budd.
There's a lot of good stuff here. The film is about 2 and a half hours long, but it didn't make me real antsy and The Bride was riding off into the sunset almost before I knew it.
A lot of fun.