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Kill Bill: Volume 2

Universal acclaim
Based on 42 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Crime | Drama | Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Quentin Tarantino
Uma Thurman (character The Bride)
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 16, 2004
DVD: August 10, 2004
Running Time: 134 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for violence, language and brief drug use
Starring Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Sonny Chiba, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, Samuel L. Jackson, Lucy Liu, and Michael Madsen
An epic tale of one woman's quest for justice presented in two installments. (Miramax)
Also On Metacritic
FILM: Grindhouse Jackie Brown Kill Bill: Volume 1 Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database View The Trailer Official Studio Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Kill Bill-Vol. 2 puts to shame doubts entertained about aesthetic strategies or structural imbalance provoked by "Kill Bill-Vol. 1." Now that the entirety of Quentin Tarantino's epic revenge melodrama is on view, "Kill Bill" emerges as a brilliant, invigorating work, one to muse over for years to come.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
You'll thrill to the action, savor the tasty dialogue and laugh like bloody hell.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Originally conceived as one film, the two-parter that has finally emerged can now be seen as a truly epic work.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Brad Laidman
"Kill Bill Vol. 1" was a pure action movie, in love with collisions of violent movement. Vol. 2 relaxes the pace, allowing for extended monologues. Those who lamented the first film's lack of wicked word exchanges should delight in Carradine's final soliloquy.
Film Threat K.J. Doughton
"Kill Bill Vol. 1" was a pure action movie, in love with collisions of violent movement. Vol. 2 relaxes the pace, allowing for extended monologues. Those who lamented the first film's lack of wicked word exchanges should delight in Carradine's final soliloquy.
Newsweek David Ansen
A piece of spectacular silliness, but that's not meant with disrespect. The key word is spectacular.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
The film succeeds by expertly melding the two stages of Tarantino's career. The rambling Tarantino of "Jackie Brown" and "Pulp Fiction" is evident in every lovingly crafted and delivered monologue, each leisurely paced scene and long take. The more action-oriented, fight-intensive Tarantino reappears in the viscerally exciting bursts of ultra-violence that punctuate the stretches of dialogue.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
There's no denying that when it comes to communicating a certain delirious romanticism of character shaped by thousands of hours spent sitting in the dark, the artist who made this showpiece is a master.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
It's a comic book at heart, albeit a thoroughly, grandly romantic one in the end.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
Few filmmakers love movies as intensely; fewer still have the ability to remind us why we fell for movies in the first place.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Put the two parts together, and Tarantino has made a masterful saga that celebrates the martial arts genre while kidding it, loving it, and transcending it.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Here's an entertainment to warm the heart of anyone who grew up (or failed to) on the formative joys of action movies.
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
If Kill Bill Vol. 1 was bloody exhilarating, Vol. 2 is bloody great. And, as a bonus, not nearly so bloody.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
The result is insanely good, and the best time I've had at the movies in ages.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Karen Karbo
While Tarantino's famous fight sequences are grisly, funny and genuinely entertaining, his love scenes are so tender, so fraught, you fear for the safety of your own heart.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
This being a Tarantino film, the conversations are as long and lurid and finely choreographed as the martial-arts set pieces.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
This installment delivers more of the pleasures that made Tarantino the wunderkind of 90s cinema: offbeat scumbag characters, narrative sleight of hand, an extraordinary visual sense, and affectionate genre pillaging.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly John Powers
Vol. 2 is the most sheerly enjoyable movie I've seen in ages, allowing for all the intimacy that was missing from its predecessor -- this time, the violence feels PERSONAL. Yet this film, too, would be richer if it didn't stand alone, but rather were part of one grand grind-house epic.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
It is the more satisfying of the two installments - less over-the-top, arterial-gushing violence and more investigation into character, motives, back-story.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Vol. 2 isn't anywhere near as self-indulgent as its predecessor, but it still plays like the work of a man too in love with his creations to decide which of his darlings to kill - so he ended up with merely a very good movie.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
Bout No. 2 is among the best closed-quarters screen fights ever, as good as (and longer than) Frank Sinatra vs. Henry Silva in The Manchurian Candidate. And Hannah does more for an eyepatch than anyone since the late Israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Tarantino maintains a flawless balance between flat-out action, quirky dialogue, stylish homages to the glistening shadows of film-noir thrillers, the sun-baked brutality of Westerns (American and Italian), the ritualistic rhythms of Shaw Brothers martial-arts pictures from the 1970s and quietly dramatic moments, shifting between them with quicksilver facility.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
For all its relative subtlety, Kill Bill, Vol. 2 remains a cartoon: Its wit is broadsword rather than rapier, and its motives are elemental. The banter is second-tier Tarantino: a cut above his imitators, but below the standard set by "Pulp Fiction" and "Jackie Brown."
Read Full Review >Salon.com Charles Taylor
There's no doubt that Kill Bill is an epic, and no doubt of the skill that's often apparent. But what it leaves us with is awesomely trivial.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
A compendium of really neat stuff and nifty sequences, and it will just have to do until Vol. 3 or reunification comes along.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
All [Tarantino] has to do is trim a full hour out of "Vol. 1" and a half hour out of Vol. 2, combine what's left and he'll have something not just amusing and idiosyncratic, but outstanding.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
So much cinematic majesty perched precariously atop so little common sense. But, hell, maybe Quentin's right; relax, enjoy -- a castle with a shaky foundation is still quite a sight.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
In its defense, I can only say that, technically, it's an exhilarating piece of filmmaking; it offers a commanding comeback role for Carradine, and it serves as a summation, dead end and, perhaps, epitaph, for Tarantino's unique contribution to world cinema.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Tarantino has always been an inventive director, and in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 he's at his cinematic best, showing an ingenuity that nothing in his monster hit "Pulp Fiction" surpasses.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
As it currently stands, Kill Bill is a victim of its director's ego and its distributor's greed. The moments of greatness make it worth seeing, and there's certainly plenty of entertainment to be found here, but it's hard not to lament what might have been.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
What's surprising is the atmosphere of sweet reason--elatively speaking--that distinguishes Kill Bill Vol. 2 from its bloody precursor.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
The first Kill Bill was nothing but violence--swordfight upon swordfight, till the clanking of steel blades drowned out anything anyone said. The second is its emotional counterpart, the heart without all the blood drained from it.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Mark Caro
For those seeking the vibrant innovation of Tarantino's first movies or the sheer rush of "Kill Bill, Vol. 1," Vol. 2 feels like a dulled blade.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Vol. 2 isn't exactly disappointing, and like all of Tarantino's movies, I suspect it will improve with repeated viewings. But for now, Vol. 2 leaves you pondering what could have been.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
All this frenzy, all these "quotes" from other movies, and yet Vol. 2 is strangely static - a dulling experience that can safely be admired from afar without it ever engaging the senses.
Read Full Review >Empire Mark Dinning
As it is, its an aloof conclusion, an unclimactic climax to a stand-alone film.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Chris Barsanti
Volume Two is what they call a movie-lovers movie, in that its replete with references to just about everything a cinema geek would appreciate.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
I don't mean to unduly target Kill Bill Vol. 2 --it's certainly no worse than most of the blam-blam fare out there. But what I crave now are movies that speak to me in a different way about violence, that acknowledge the fact that real people are harmed.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
A shapeless mess, but at least its not as monotonous as Kill Bill Vol. 1. [19 & 26 April 2004, p. 202]
Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Watching Thurman's character "triumph" in a context as joyless and self-referential as Tarantino's is a soul-deadening experience, one that over two hours takes on the same dreary monotone as the cheapest pornography.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 191 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Gavin C gave it an8:
Less action, more talking but it somehow lives up to the original's standards.
Help U gave it a5:
Everything in the movie seems out of place right down the over exaggerated action scenes to the terrible story.
Kendo J gave it an8:
7.6 Perfect sequel to a very cool movie. Alternately hilarious and excruciating. Pai Mei is a brilliant caricature.
K M gave it a10:
Though it wasn't blood splattering fun like the first, it is a great movie all its own and it ends up giving a great conclusion to the epic.
alex b gave it a10:
Another beauty from a brilliant man. This movie is a psychological wonder. The ending was perfect because it mirrored the Bride and Bills warrior ability. This is why I love movies so much, and this is why I love Tarantino so much.
Dan K. gave it a6:
I loved the first one, it was so amazing to watch a movie with iconic moments and swift action sequences. The first was intentionally designed to make you react on a gut level not a brain level. The problem here is that this film just goes on too long with so little material. Even the eventual showdown with Bill is a letdown and the samurai violence that the first one was great for has become joyless and depleted. This film is much different and probably owes more to the spaghetti western genre than the samurai/exlpoitation genre, but it fails at that to. Nothing is inconic, everything is forgettable. I would watch it once if you are dying to find out what happens, but after that, you'll have already forgotten why you cared. It was the journey that counted, and volume 1 was the better half of that journey.
Dave B. gave it a10:
Loved it! It does not surprise me that some people don't though. Quentin T is an acquired taste. Loved the first one too! This guy makes movies the way I would, if I only could. He pulls no punches. Oh, and both movies had some great tunes!!!
