Kill Bill, Volume 2 Reviews

The whole is never more than the sum of its parts, no matter how well-crafted those parts are.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Tries to be the "Ulysses" of exploitation films.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Sequel just as over-the-top explicitly violent.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Soulless.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Those with indomitable patience may find some reward in the final half hour of Vol. 2.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

When not being a colossal bore, Tarantino takes pleasure in offending our moral sensibilities with his adoring portrait of a natural born killer with a thirst for revenge.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5

Chapter 75: Quentin Still Loves Himself (Lest You Thought It Was Only a Summer Thing)

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More is less in this needlessly talky, surprisingly unstylish, and disappointingly dull affair. Yet stitch together Vol. 1 & 2 and you've got a different story altogether.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

At times, you may find yourself wishing that Bill or the Bride would just shut up and kill somebody.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

Betraying its origins as the last half of another movie, rather than its own entity, Kill Bill Vol. 2 feels like leftovers.

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"Volume 2" was about a million times better than "Volume 1." Unfortunately though, one million times zero is still zero.

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The thrill has been completely abandoned in Volume 2, which trades its buckets of crimson blood for pages of dry dialogue that bring us nowhere new

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

In the killer moment, the Bride is buried alive and must think outside the box, as it were....[But] it's Tarantino who kills Bill, not with the sword, but with a lazy pen.

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Is this what we were waiting for? Now we know why Miramax took a Hattori Hanzi sword to Quentin Tarantino's latest production and divided it in two.

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"Kill Bill: Volume 2" commits the ultimate crime of being boring. What could have been one of the best action films of all time turns into a mediocre, frustrating film.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

What should have been a comic strip has turned into a bloated coffee-table book, smacking of self-indulgence.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Shows a talented filmmaker and brilliant pop-culture mind wrestling with his often distasteful sexual predilections.

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While VOLUME 1 ended in overdrive, VOLUME 2 rarely gets out of third gear before finally running out of gas and mercifully sputtering to a halt

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5