Reel To Reel:
Kill Bill Volume 2
How It Rates: ***
Starring: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Darryl Hannah
Rated: R
Red Flags: Graphic Violence, Language
Preconceived Notions: Saw Volume 1. Can this be any geekier?
The Bottom Line: No, not really. But there's enough to satisfy those film festish freaks.
Volume 2 of Kill Bill shows what Quentin Tarentino is capable of when he keeps his inner geek restrained. Where Volume 1 was mostly style and sampling, this one's deeper.
Yes, there is a climactic showdown between The Bride (Thurman) and Bill (Carradine). But that showdown unfolds in a manner we have not been groomed for. More satisfying for the blood-and-guts crowd will be the Bride's showdown with Hannah's one-eyed character.
We get more of the backstory we could've used in Volume 1 regarding Bride and Bill. They had a history. They had issues. They had a serious monster of a martial-arts trainer. And they still have some latent affections.
But let's get back to the sampling everybody liked from the first picture. Again, Tarentino drops references to blaxploitation, spaghetti westerns, chop-house and even 70's soul. Yet there's less imitation and more innovation.
Kill Bill would have stunk as a heavily-cut single feature. But I imagine we will eventually get a whopping four-hour version on DVD, along the same lines as The Godfather Saga or Sergio Leone's uncut version of Once Upon A Time In America. Yes, they do make novels for the screen, and this is one of them.
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