Bloody Satisfaction without so much blood

Rating: Null/10 (16 April 2004)

Excuse me if I gush for a minute. Ho ho ho. Kill Bill vol. 2 is basically perfect. All the arm- chair directors out there will be scratching their heads wondering why they can't find anything wrong with the film, NOT A THING. The movie should satisfy all those that had reservations about Vol. 1. The basic story is the same but the characters are deeper, the emotions more palpable and the dialogue more QT-ish. The success of the film is that it's so much fun, and so exhilirating yet it still rings with emotional resonance. At the heart of the story is this simple fact "The Bride will Kill Bill." It's not about the story perse. It's about the little flourishes and footnotes. You gotta love Gordon Liu playing the wizened Kung-fu Master Paimei whose legend though at first seeming to be a string of bad cliches, you'll find yourself enthralled with anyway. You gotta love how seamlessly QT switches genre's and styles, and yet invests each switch and each new piece of the story with enough life to support a film of its own. You gotta love how the movie flaunts its irony without ever becoming cloy, or distracting from the story. An exciting film that blends technique, homage, and storytelling flawlessly.