Best Tarantino Film

Rating: 10/10 (25 August 2007)

Yes.. I know many of you will disagree and claim that Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs is the best QT film. But as I did, you will also grow up and see the splendour that is this film.
I first saw this movie 3 years ago and found it quite boring, actually. I thought that Kill Bill 1 was better and had more fighting in it. Now 3 years later, I just watched them again and I can't believe how unobservant I was back then. This time, I could see 1000 things more than I could 3 years ago. This is not only about violence, but also about the sheer beauty of atmosphere and dialogue.
Tarantino has topped his career with volume 2 of Kill Bill. The atmospheres he captures in this film is among the best I have ever experienced. The music and sound is the best in a movie since Pulp Fiction. The dialogue, especially with David Carradine is so sophisticated, that I demand an Oscar for Carradine for the way he carries that out. Sitting in front of the fireplace playing his flute and telling stories. Surprising Uma with her child and charming her and being so cool about every situation always coming up with brilliant lines. Bravo! A guy I didn't even know existed, made me shiver with his performance and he does it just as good as David Carradine. Kill Bills "father" played by Michael Parks delivers one of the best performances, I have ever witnessed. He plays some 80 years old Mexican-American whorehouse manager far out in nowhere whom Uma Thurman drives to see to get to know where Bill is. An Oscar to Michael Parks would have been in it's place. He is so slick and disgusting and I don't know what it is he does with his face, but it is genius! That calmness of his voice. A Don Juan and with an accent and a way of speaking, that I have never seen before. Wow! Michael Parks also plays the father of the two cops we see in kill bill one in the church, and I liked him very much in that part as well.
David Carradine deserves an Oscar for his role as the boss Bill. He is so great and sophisticated, so well articulate and cultivated, so charming that you almost get to like him. But you can always see through him and you know that he is an evil soab and you are never sure where you've got him. You are never sure, if he really has good intentions. Remember to see the deleted scene on the DVD! Here you get to see him fight. You don't in the real film.
Uma Thurman is also extremely brilliant in this movie. In the scene, where she is at the wedding rehearsal and meets Bill outside of the church, I could read her mind. An expression tells more than a thousand words.
Michael Madsen and Darryl Hannah have great roles as well and carries them out beautifully.
The last character I would like to mention who contributes to making this film as great as it is, is Pai Mei played by Gordon Liu. He is the comic relief of the film and he does an excellent job as the mysterious supernatural Chinese mentor far out in the jungle. He actually also plays Johnny Mo in Kill Bill 1! I could go on and on.. The bottom line is, that every word spoken in this film and how it is carried out has been put thought into. If you like great acting, you have to see this film. If you love great fighting scenes, you should see it as well as they are totally amazing. All of them.
10/10