Kill Bill Vol. 2.

Well really a couple of words on the whole Kill Bill thing.
I can say that my general lack of excitement about the whole project was maintained after seeing the second part. I suppose finally some of the characters flesh out into something that you could care about right at the end. But the bride was still an almost meaningless character right through the end and even to me now in reflection.

All of the little filmy style bits seemed rough and assembled in such a piecewise manner as to feel like an afterthought. This comes back to the whole 'homage' element to the film that Quentin Tarentino seem to think covers all ills. I will give it that a couple of scenes were still pretty good. the fight scene with the crazy 88's was such unbelievable excess that it worked; Sort of like The Wild Bunch meets a samurai sword. The scene with Estaban near the edn was also quite fun. The actor had some good mannerisms that made the character more real than many of the other main characters. Oh yes, the training chapter with Pai Mei was quite good. I like that there were no subtitles/ It pushed you to fill in your own understanding of the training montage based on all your prior experience of training montages.

And where was all of the good Tarentino dialogue? Nowhere, that's where. Maybe in the last scene with Bill, who felt like he was speaking the words that Tarento would have liked to say. I almost get the feeling that Tarentino wrote Bill to be his cameo right at the end but felt that maybe it was too egocentric even for him.

So yeah, blah. I don't like Kill Bill, it is meaningless fluff. But i guess i was able to watch it, so:
3 stars