A quite literate tribute to movie-making

Rating: 10/10 (12 November 2006)

Where KILLBILL V0L1 appeared to be a tribute, an homage, to Japanese film makers, VOL 2 is a tribute to QT's vision. As David Furey observed it was like Tarrantino spent a lot of his energies and inspiration in making this movie and said to the rest of Hollywood: This is the best I can do; try to top it.
I went to the theater to see the same movie seven times in a month twice in my life. The movies: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and KILL BILL VOLUME 2. Volume1 is filled with gore; I found it overkill (pun intended); if you look closely, you will notice that no one as shop, hacked up, or otherwise stabbed. We are not shown the massacre and we only see three people die Bill is killed hand-to-hand, Buck is killed snake-to-face, and Elle shows us in a flashback how she poisoned Pei Mai. Quite graphic, but without a plethora of violent scenes. I admit to my students that this movie is in my top five (along with ONCE UPON A TIME IN America, CITIZEN KANE, MILLER'S CROSSING and THE RETURN OF THE KING),but I've never recommended it in class, not because of the violence, but because of the level of the vocabulary and the subtlety of the humour. Elle Diver: Gargantuan is such a lovely word, It's too bad one gets to use it so seldom in a sentence.
The daughter's role is so well done, I wonder how much more of the movie she was allowed to see.