Kill Bill Vol 2 film review

Review

Cast & crew

Kill Bill Vol 2

(2003)

Long-winded, overly self-indulgent and talky, director Quentin Tarantino's bloated wrap-up of his bloody revenge saga is something of an anticlimax. Detailing how the Bride (Uma Thurman) tracks down Deadly Viper assassins Budd (Michael Madsen) and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), before facing Bill (David Carradine) and an unexpected “adversary”, it's the same mix as before except less visually dynamic and with a lot more unnecessary exposition. Yet the borrowed style (chiefly from Sergio Leone), music (from Ennio Morricone's spaghetti westerns), characters (kung fu master Pai Mei from the Shaw Brothers' movies), props (Carradine dusts off the instrument he played in The Silent Flute), and all the usual obscure genre references still make this compressed exploitation-cinema history lesson into a buff treat. The martial arts action may pack a less gory punch than Vol 1, but there's still plenty here to shock. One single condensed movie would doubtless have sufficed, but then we wouldn't have had the earlier gem to this minor companion piece. AJ

Contains violence.

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Running time

131min

Country of origin

Genre

Martial Arts Drama

Alternate title

Vol 2

Original language

English / Japanese / Mandarin

Screenplay

Quentin Tarantino, from the character created by Q & U [Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman]

Theatrical distributor

Buena Vista

UK cinema certificate

UK cinema release date

April 2004

UK video release date

August 2004

Subtitling information

In English, Japanese, Mandarin with subtitles




awards information


	Award	Category	Name	Nominee/Winner

	Golden Globe 2004	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Motion Picture	David Carradine	Nominee
	Golden Globe 2004	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama	Uma Thurman	Nominee