A shallow exercise in sensationalism

Rating: Null/10 (17 May 2004)

Well, I didn't much like the first one, finding it vulgar and tasteless, so one can't really be surprised that I didn't like the second one. To be fair, however,
Tarantino has made a fair go at adding story and character to his revenge saga, but it's ultimately to little effect. He performs any number of post-modern stylistic pirouettes, sly cultural references, witty asides and cinematic homages, but the end result - for this reviewer at least - was to shrug and say: "So what?"