Thank goodness for Kill Bill II after seeing the first one and being left on a cliff hanger. I was wondering will there ever be a sequel? I would like to say Tarantino didn't let us down. Great storyline tied up the loose ends (at last), music was brilliant throughout and Uma Thurman was at her best as was David Carradine. Superb acting, action, suspense and drama.

Kill Bill Vol. 2 - The 2nd part of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill story. This movie concentrates more on the story of the characters rather than the fighting but it ties up a lot of loose ends and answers a lot of questions from the first movie like The Bride's real name (Beatrix Kiddo). It tells the story of the other 3 characters that she has on her Death List, Budd (Bill's Brother Code Name - Sidewinder), Elle (Code Name - Californian Mountain Snake) and Bill (the father of The Bride's daughter). Overall the movie is good to watch and it never gets old.

I loved Kill Bill, Volume 1. I thought that it was the comeback movie for Tarantino. He had been hurting for a stretch of movies in my opinion. The first Kill Bill had tons of action. I think someone died every 2 minutes on average. If Kill Bill 1 is an action movie, than Kill Bill 2 can be filed under "drama" in my opinion.

The beginning started out slow. So slow, in fact, that I fell asleep. I was out for about 5 minutes, and evidently I began to snore. A guy in the row in front of me yelled, "Hey, wake up"!! Realize, there were only about 5 people in the entire theater. Uma Thurman is back as some sort of uber killer. She is a top notch assassin that is out for revenge.

The wedding scene from the first movie is explained in detail in this film. Evidently, Bill was in love with Uma, or "Beatrix" as her name is in the movie. He figured, if he couldn't have her, nobody could - so he killed her. Or so he thought.

The beginning of the movie follows Uma's training under an asian martial arts master. This took place long ago, before she tried to quit Bill's team. He was a funny character. He hates white people, and he hates women, so you can imagine the scenes of training Uma. It was like watching an old "Rocky" film, there for a while. This asian master has white hair, like Colonel Sanders - including goatee. He loves playing with it, it was strange.

Uma has three people left on her "to kill" list. They are: Michael Madsen, Darryl Hannah, and Bill(David Carradine). Madsen's character has gone way down hill since his assassin days. He is now a bouncer at a strip club, and an alcoholic, who lives in a trailer. He is Bill's brother, which we didn't know in the first film.

Uma's fight scene with Darryl Hannah is probably the best in the entire film. There were not enough fight scenes in this movie, in my opinion. Uma and Darryl fight it out with the best samurai swords known to man. A lot of swordplay, and just plain beating each other up. The end of this battle is outstanding!

The final scene is Uma confronting Bill. Tarantino brought John Travolta's career back to life with "Pulp Fiction". David Carradine is not a good actor, in my opinion. He wasn't good in "Kung Fu", he wasn't good in "Death Race 2000", and you can't convince me that he has been any good in either of the "Kill Bill" films. I get the feeling that he isn't even acting, he's just being himself.

Uma is torn, because Bill has been raising their 4 year old daughter, while she has been away. Most of those 4 years, Uma was in a coma - brought on by Bill shooting her. Uma and Bill do end up having a final showdown.

Quentin Tarantino does some nice things with this film. He moves from color to black and white effectively. The music is very good. However, you can put all the lipstick on a pig that you want, it will still be a pig. Compared to the first Kill Bill, this movie is slow, not as original, and nowhere near as good. I give it a 7/10.