Vol 2 answers Vol 1's questions - I was euphoric!

Rating: 8/10 (19 April 2004)

It's important Kill Bill be seen as 1 movie. Vol 1 asks questions, Vol 2 answers questions. Therefore, if you see one without the other, you'll be a measure disappointed. I was careful to watch KB Vol 1 on DVD three times (with subtitles to catch every word) prior watching KB Vol 2. Like others that commented, I thought KB Vol 2 was slow off the start, which is not to imply err, when the ending is pulled together so tightly and so satisfyingly as it was. I was simply euphoric by the movie's end and felt that way through the rest of the night, pondering and tingling from the satisfaction that the movie delivered.
In my view, the bloody fun that was KB Vol 1 is an 8, the satisfaction of KB Vol 2 is a 9 ... but as one movie, KB Vol 1-2 is a 10.
The Bride, Uma: I bow humbly. Darryl Hannah is brilliantly fearsome and garners tremendous respect as the California Mountain Snake (this IS the same girl that was in Splash, isn't it?). David Carradine, WAS Bill incarnate.
SPOILER: Only in the final 10 minutes of the movie do we see just how human the Bride and Bill are. It's a familiar story--one that most all of us can relate to--only Bill and the Bride take it to the extreme ... Bill for his jealousy, the Bride for her revenge. Finally, I thought the Bride's pleas of "Thank-you" at the end of the movie is a very moving moment--telling that there was a higher power that got her to the place she was and she knew it. Her narrative in Vol 1 even mentions "God justifies her revenge, even demands it" (paraphrased). Pretty cool, eh?