Kill Bill Vol. 2 (DVD)

Kill Bill Volume 2 is a sequel to, you've guessed it, Kill Bill Volume 1. The obvious reason for my seeing this was because I saw the first one, I wanted to know how the story began, how it ends, and because I wanted to see more of the action I saw in the first one. The film was directed by Quentin Tarantino. I don't know much about him but he directed films such as pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. The story revolves around The Bride/Black Mamba (Uma Thurman), who has vowed to take revenge on her ex-boss, Bill (David Carradine), hence the title Kill Bill. The Bride was formally a member of a team of assassins known as Deadly Viper, with Bill as their leader. ...

Now I have already written a review on the first part of the Kill Bill saga so I thought I would actually get around to writing about the second film. Kill Bill Volume 2 came out about six months after the first one. Considering I loved the first film so much I just knew I had to watch the second and see how it all ends. I was only 16 at the time but I still went to watch it at the cinema, bad Sam I know! Well what can I say about this film, its Quentin Tarantino’s finest, I actually thought it was better than the first and it remains one of the films in my collection that I have seen more than twelve times. The manufacturer’s description of Kill Bill 2 is as ...

Does Quentin Tarantino actually serve any kind of purpose? This question has been bothering me for a while, largely after the first Kill Bill, a film that annoyed me in a big way. I went into it expecting to enjoy it, and came out bored stupid after seeing two hours and what felt like badly assembled clips from other films. Looking back on his career, his trend is hardly a new one for him. Jackie Brown resembles a ton of 70s crime films. Reservoir Dogs is just a remake of Long hu feng yun, a 1987 Hong Kong film. Pulp Fiction appears to be his only original works, and deserves all of the praise that it gets. It's a stunning film. This aside though, there seems to be ...