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MJ5K's Review
Summary - Really Great 4.5
Not quite as fun as the first film, but Kill Bill Vol. 2 welcomes in the return of Tarantino’s fresh and interesting dialogue scenes that his fans have missed for so long. Aside from that, this is mostly the same in the same league as the first film. Its just as over-the-top, just as violent, just as implausible, and just as much of a tribute to everything the director loves (spaghetti westerns, martial arts flicks, exploitation, etc).
The film picks up right where the last one left off. After slaughtering a crap load of hitmen, the Bride returns to America to wipe out the remaining members of the Deadly Viper Assasanation Squad and to finally take her revenge on Bill once and for all.
The film utilizes a good amount of flashbacks which helps the story move along fine and dandy but its not quite the cup of tea that the first film was. But who cares, it lives up to it well enough and its nothing more than prime vintage Tarantino good-ness.
Acting - Really Great 4.5
The acting’s just as good in this outing as it was in the first one. Uma Thurman’s deadly and menacing as the Bride and David Carradine has a great screen presence as Bill.
Male Stars - Really Great 4.5
Female Stars - Really Great 4.5
Female Costars - Really Great 4.5
Male Costars - Really Great 4.5
Film - Really Great 4.5
Direction - Really Great 4.5
Tarantino moves the story along pretty good and leaves some good areas open for us to hear his brilliant dialogue. That may drag for some but hardcore Tarantino fans will be all ears. He knows how to direct an action very well and each one is very well done. I, for one, especially love the training sequence.Dialogue - Perfect 5.0
It's Tarantino, so the dialogue is gonna be the film's best quality.Music - Really Great 4.5
I love the use of 70s drive in music. It certainly fits Tarantino's style.Visuals - Perfect 5.0
The blood and violence is very stylized and very well done. I guess thats why a lot of people say Tarantino's "style over substance." But I think he's a little bit of both.Edge - Sordid 3.1
Just as non-child friendly as the first one. Kiddies, go to bed.
Sex Innocent 1.0
Violence Monstrous 4.6
Rudeness Nasty 3.6
Reality - Supernatural 4.0
Like I said, just as implausible as the first.
Circumstantial - Supernatural 4.0
Biological - Supernatural 4.0
Physical - Supernatural 4.0
3 Comments
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Wick Jul 2, 2010 9:15PM
I guess that’s part of why you said the first film was more fun.
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MJ5K Jul 1, 2010 4:54PM
Haha, I remember that scene in the first film. That had to be my favorite scene.
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Wick Jul 1, 2010 7:18AM
Regarding MetalJunky5000’s Review
I remember a very funny scene from one of the Kill Bills where Uma was fighting another assassin to death in her living room when we see through the picture window a little girl come walking up to the house. It becomes apparent that the girl is the assassin’s daughter coming home after school, so Tarantino gets us wondering what’s going to happen when she arrives at the front door, an increasingly LOL situation given how outrageous the scene. When she finally does come walking in the front door, both assassins stop fighting and greet her sweetly, like a normal Mom and one of her girlfriends would, and then resume fighting to the death after the kid goes upstairs.Or something like that…