Unique Film Surprising For Its Amount Of Dialog

Rating: 9/10 (15 March 2006)

This is unique, a film unlike any I've seen before. It features either calm discussions (most of the film) or intense, insane action. Most of the film, surprisingly, is talk...and I found the conversations fascinating.
After the ultra-violent Kill Bill Vol. 1, this movie was shock. There is no shouting in here, no yelling, just a few very sick killers with good vocabularies talking to one another. It sounds boring, but it wasn't to me. Even the trailer-trash lowlife played by Michael Madsen, had a good way with the words.
The violence in here is not that prevalent, and it's not the mindless, brain- numbing kind that made up most of the Vol. 1 in this two-part story. As I said, it was a shock...and yes, I liked this. It's good storytelling.
This film is stylish with a capital "T" and tells a lot of background of the characters featured in Vol. 1. Among the more memorable scenes, in addition to the great dialog, are Thurman being buried alive; the Chinese teacher; a snake attack and two women duking it out. I liked the ending to this film, too. Nicely done.
The cinematography also was good and I appreciated the black-and-white long opening scene....but I still go back to fascinating conversations in this film. I think my favorite is near the end with David Carradine talking about Superman and Clark Kent, and the analogy of them to Thurman's character. Carradine's speeches were consistently interesting.