Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
I am going to start this review by explaining just how much ass Kill Bill Vol. 1 kicks. This movie kicks so much ass that it will forever be mantled on my shelf as the greatest ass kicking movie of all time. Everything about this movie rules from the dialogue to the fight scenes. I have watched this movie over and over again and absolutely will not get tired of all the ass kicking violence. To sum it all up, Uma Thurman a.k.a. the Bride is out for revenge against her former boss Bill and his assasins that tried to kill her on her wedding day. The movie starts off with a nice fight scene and the death of one of Bill's assasins. It goes into her being in a coma for four years, waking up, getting a sword, and going to kill the first of Bill's assasins in Japan. Not only is the fighting amazing, but so is the scenery and the music involved. Everything fits together so perfectly. The Bride gets into a sword fight with 88 guys, killing them all, not to mention a ball and chain fight with a school girl, and the climactic ending where she kills Lucy Lui. Everything perfect. Beautifully filmed, exciting, and excellently staged. Enter Kill Bill Vol. 2. I absolutely hated this movie. It is a completely different movie from the first. Filmed to be more like a western, it is boring and involves way too much dialogue. I cannot believe that it was written and directed by the same person. Vol. 2 starts off by showing what actually happened to the bride on her wedding day, without actually showing what happened at all. The assasins walk in with guns and cut, not gonna show you what happens next. You can know everyone got killed, why show it? Then we get into her coming for the next assasin she plans to kill. Let's show fifteen minutes about his personal life where he works as a bouncer for no reason. Then let's have her not kill him. Let's have him shoot her in the chest and bury her alive. Meanwhile we can flashback to her training with her ancient Chinese master. In the meantime the fourth and final assasin shows up and kills the bouncer. So much for the Bride's revenge. She doesn't even kill him! Then she shows up and blinds the remaining assasin (not killing her either by the way) and heads off to kill Bill. She stops by this latin guy's house and they have a conversation I cannot understand because he is so heavily accented. She goes to Bill's house and finds him with her daughter, who is still alive by the way. Then a Fullhouse type of sequence begins where she reunites with her daughter and snuggles with her and all the crap while Bill tells this very long and very pointless story about a fish. Well, they put the kid to sleep and now it's time for the final showdown. The momment that everyone has been waiting for. The part where she is going to kill Bill. At this point I'm thinking I can forgive all the nonviolent sappy stuff if the showdown between her and Bill is as great a fight as we've all been anticipating. No such luck. It lasts about five seconds. Boom, boom suddenly he's been Buddah Palmed or something and is dead. She didn't even get into a sword fight with him after all this hype about swords. My first and only question is "Where the hell is all the fighting?" They build up all this suspense in the first volume and she gets this magical sword that can cut through any other sword, for nothing in the end. She didn't even kill all of the people on her death list. They even add story elements to try and hype it up more, such as so and so is Bill's brother and so and so also killed the Bride's Chinese master. I would just like to state that this is a dumb idea. First off the deadly Buddah Palm or whatever was not mentioned in the first volume but ends up being the death of Bill. Second, there is no further story developement between Bill and the man from Okinawa who made her the sword in the first place to kill him with, nor does she in fact use the sword to kill him. The second volume involves some Chinese guy as Bill's teacher when it was stated that the man from Okinawa taught Bill. I can't go on. Take my advice. Buy Vol. 1 and watch it everyday but forget about Vol. 2. It's a big dissapointment.
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