Right so I finally saw KILL BILL Volume 2 yesterday. Before I continue I’m going to say that this review has major SPOILERS. I’m going to be talking about everything I liked and disliked about the movie in detail, so be warry. If you’ve not had a chance to see it, go somewhere else, come back once you’ve actually seen it.

Right now that that’s out of the way let’s get down to the task at hand. Tarantino’s 5th movie. This was completely different to the first one, and yet it was a natural extension. While the first one had the emphasis on style over content, a bombastic romp into every movie tarantino loved watching, his homages to all kinds of cinema coming through, this volume actually felt like a tarantino flick. It had loads of scenes that made you uncomfortable, like in Resevoir dogs and Pulp fiction, and at the same time it had many scenes that made me laugh and smile and came off as very tender moments.

The scenes that made me feel the most uncomfortable were the ones of Uma in the coffin. Everything about how that entire scene was shot showed a man who knew how to keep the audience on the edge of their seats even though they KNEW she would come out of it ok, since he tells us right at the very beginning of the movie. That’s what made this movie good, in that everything is spilled out for you and yet you still forget about the girl even though that’s the first thing that he shows you at the beginning of the movie.

David Carradine was AMAZING. I used to watch him regularly on the TV series Kung Fu, he was the grasshopper and his master was blind. A disgraced Shaolin Monk he wondered the american wild west, it was a classic TV series, which he tarnished by appearing in the follow up with his ‘son’. Geeze what a load of rubbish. He’s lost some weight and he actually looks brilliant in his black suit.

Uma also impressed me no end. The training scenes looked brutal and she carried those off just as well as she did the scenes with her daughter, the crying with Bill, the entire package was done in such a way that I thought this was a worthwhile movie. I got my money’s worth of movie, felt saticfied and can’t wait for Quentin’s next movie, which hopefully shouldn’t take 5 years to come out.