Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004)

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If Kill Bill - Vol. 1 was like a roundhouse kick to the head, Vol. 2 is practically a warm hug.

August 15, 2012 Full Review

Christy Lemire

Associated Press

Top Critic

Those turned off by the first part's reckless, relentless violent purges aren't likely to find cause for conversion, but Vol. 2 certainly broadens the tale's remit, even as it aims to deepen it.

June 24, 2006 Full Review

Time Out

Top Critic

I've lost my sweet tooth for slice-and-dice escapism, and perhaps this is why I feel the need to see movies that don't simply glamorize or fetishize or supernaturalize brutality.

August 7, 2004 Full Review | Comment (1)

Peter Rainer

New York Magazine

Top Critic

The pop encyclopedist and video-store genius has become a megalomaniac, and the exhilarating filmmaker he might have been is disappearing fast.

August 1, 2004 | Comments (4)

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

If he doesn't take care Tarantino could make something significantly worse.

May 14, 2004 Full Review

Noah Berlatsky

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

A gargantuanly entertaining double feature.

April 29, 2004 Full Review

Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

It has its moments, and Thurman is an appealing heroine. But on the whole, this is a disjointed, disappointing and monstrously self-indulgent exercise.

August 15, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Film4

Sequel just as over-the-top explicitly violent.

December 24, 2010 Full Review | Comments (16)

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Although it's a gigantic shame that Miramax split Quentin Tarantino's long awaited 'kung-fu samurai Spaghetti Western love story' epic into two halves, "Kill Bill Vol. 2" pays off in spades...

May 6, 2009 Full Review

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Quentin Tarantino revels in the art and craft of cinema; so much so he has managed to mine all his favourite genres and make the style the substance.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

Urban Cinefile Critics

Urban Cinefile

Full of surprises and cinematic homage.

August 7, 2008 Full Review

Mark Halverson

Sacramento News & Review

If Kill Bill is a comeback film, Tarantino's future career prospects look about as good as Mike Tyson's. The Emperor's new clothes are showing.

December 7, 2007 Full Review

Keith H. Brown

Eye for Film

Though Vol. 2's body count is of necessity smaller than that of its predecessor, the brutality hurts more here, and counts for more.

August 4, 2007 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

The Tarantino style has been copied a thousand times over since Pulp Fiction, what Kill Bill: Vol. 2 proves is that he's still the master.

July 14, 2007 Full Review

Joe Lozito

Big Picture Big Sound

Much like the classic spaghetti Westerns and kung fu flicks, Tarantino paradoxically manages to glorify and condemn the violence of his characters.

September 25, 2006

Russ Breimeier

Christianity Today

Tarantino is killing off his mentors - directors who have passed or should have passed the torch long ago - to pave the future of cinema.

July 2, 2006

Gina Carbone

Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)

He saved the best for last.

July 5, 2005 Full Review

David Medsker

Bullz-Eye.com

Soulless.

May 4, 2005 Full Review | Comments (17)

Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

The second movie's action is limited to 2-3 fights, the rest are long conversations and introspection. It is a far bleaker, more serious and dry affair -- but also a more fascinating character study.

April 2, 2005 Full Review

Garth Franklin

Dark Horizons

The closer the Bride gets to her true goal, the more human she becomes. Some scenes near the conclusion have a lot of heart in them.

December 6, 2004

Jeffrey Overstreet

Looking Closer

Vol. 2 is a great conclusion to a great (albeit, as of yet, nonexistent except in theory) film, but it is not a great film.

November 15, 2004 Full Review

Mark Dujsik

Mark Reviews Movies

Mesmo com todas as suas falhas, produz um número suficiente de surpresas narrativas que o situam acima da maior parte do lixo que Hollywood produziu em 2004.

October 8, 2004 Full Review

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

Disposable scenes mar "Kill Bill Vol. 2."

August 16, 2004

Mark Robison

Reno Gazette-Journal

It stands alone as one of the year's most entertaining films.

August 13, 2004 Full Review

Mark Sells

Oregon Herald

• 1. Bill: Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.
  – Submitted by Mayumi L (15 days ago)
• 1. The Bride: Something's I've been curious about, just between us girls, what did you say to Pai Mei to make him to snatch out your eye?
  2. Elle Driver: I called him a miserable old fool.
  3. The Bride: Ooh, bad idea.
  4. Elle Driver: You know what I did? I killed that miserable old fool. I poisoned his fishheads. And I told him, "To me the word of an old fool like you is worth less than nothing." That's right, I killed your master. And now I'm going to kill you, with your own sword, no less, which, in the very immediate future, will become my sword.
  5. The Bride: Bitch. You don't have a future.
  – Submitted by Rawballs B (34 days ago)
• 1. The Bride: My pussy wagon died on me.
  – Submitted by Ann A (3 months ago)
• 1. The Bride: Are you saying that I'm a superhero?
  2. Bill: No I'm not saying that you're a superhero but I'm saying that you're a killer, a natural born killer.
  – Submitted by Baurushan J (4 months ago)
• 1. The Bride: Bitch you don't have a future.
  – Submitted by Baurushan J (4 months ago)
• 1. Elle Driver: Gargantuan. Such a great word. I rarely get to use it in a sentence.
  – Submitted by Ann A (4 months ago)