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Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004)
SADLY OVERLOOKED BY THE ACADEMY
If you're like me, before you buy or rent a film you might check the customer reviews on amazon.com to see what other people thought. The problem is, everyone has different tastes and different opinions on what is good and what is bad. If you're a Tarantino fan then you probably have seen this film twenty times and don't need to be sold on it's greatness. But for those of you out there who haven't studied every scene and memorized every line Mr. Pink ever said in Reservoirs Dogs...here's an honst review on the KING GEEK'S latest masterpeice. Kill Bill Vol. 1 was amazing but seemed a little more exploitive than anything 'ol Quentin had ever done. The film was just violent and had little plot...it was a straight forward revenge flick that pretty much never trailed from it's inspirations. I myself am a massive revenge film fan, (check out Rolling Thunder, Man on Fire, Mad Max and King of the Ants) and I have to say that the Bride fighting the Crazy 88 in Vol. 1 was one of the most awesome American produced martial arts action scenes ever captured on film. Saying that, the film lacked something that Tarantino really unleashed in Vol. 2...power. Kill Bill Vol. 2 shows us that Quentin has grown up and isn't all about excess and exploitation. He's not all about violence. At times in Vol. 2 it felt like it wasn't a Tarantino film because of the emotions that take place in the film. This film is a lot more dramatic, a lot more epic, and a lot more story and character driven. SOme of the scenes are so original and so smart and so well directed and acted that it's a wonder why the Academy Awards totally ignored the film at this years Oscars. Vol. 2 may lack the blood but it's the real guts of what Kill Bill really is. It's also a homage to Leone's spagetti westerns...half the soundtrack is old Morricone scores from Italian films. Michael Madsen's character is straight out of an old western. And then you have the Shaw Brothers tribute with the whole Pei Mei training of The Bride. This film effected me much more than Vol. 1 did. Both films are wonderful but Vol. 2 is the one that proves to the world that Tarantino is much more than fancy dialogue and unforgiving violence. Look for Quentin's newest project, he directed a scene in the upcoming SIN CITY adaptation in which Benecio Del Toro haunts Clive Owen's Dwight.
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