At the end of the original Kill Bill 'The Bride' had struck two assassins from her death list, the infamous Chinese mob boss
O-Ren Ishii and the strong Vernita Green, pay back for them killing her husband and destroying her wedding day, she has to devour two more of the worlds most deadly fighter and she will finally reach her target. She has come a hell of a long way to get to the crime lord who ordered her love dead, and this time she will Kill Bill. What ensues is a frantic meeting of the minds were strength is everything and loyalty means nothing.

One of the main things that sets this apart from other action movies is the compelling relationship between the good guy and the bad one. I loved that their relationship was so hard to define, we are told from the beginning that 'The Bride' wants to kill Bill but in the end you feel as if they know each other inside out and love one another. This leads me to one of the greatest driving forces of the film, no one can be put in a box! there is no-one who is all good or all bad all the characters are complex which makes the film a thrill to watch as you are constantly discovering new things about the players which instantly makes you view the flick differently. All of the emotional bonds that tie the people together are intricate and everyone has their own motives which means that you truly get both sides of the story. When the two leads (The Bride and the infamous Bill) eventually meet it is like a sugar rush to watch how they react to each other and their witty banter is mostly hilarious but occasionally quite touching. It truly is a meeting of the minds and the film manages to build a really epic sense into the final last minutes that makes it stunningly addictive viewing which is odd as not that much happens. It most certainly isn't one of the most exciting showdowns I have seen on film but for some reason I was on the edge of my seat for the last half hour being happily pulled along by the jaw dropping twists and irresistible acting until the inevitable -surprisingly subtle but hugely affecting- final frame.

Daryl Hannah has the whole evil cow from hell thing down to perfection, she is a deadlier than deadly assassin and she knows it, I love the breezy confidence and undisputable style that she injects into the role and was impressed by the sense of importance she brought to the character. She managed to make her character truly scary but with elegance to spare and her interaction with Thurman was electrifying, a very enjoyable portrayal of the hard nose assassin from hell! Michael Madson fits his sleazy low life character down to the ground, he radiates grubbiness and although his character doesn't get to do much fighting you really feel that he is capable of protecting himself. It is a performance that will now doubt repel most people with his drunken swagger extraordinarily bad language and mean spirited banter. One of the best performances of this highly accomplished film comes from another person though, it comes from the one, the only Bill (A.K.A David Carradine) he doesn't really get very much screen time but when he eventually does he lit up the screen with professionalism and gathered an unmatchable chemistry with his leading lady, I thought he dealt with the many twists in the plot well, keeping the film well paced and flowing. He brought a lot of emotion to a man seemingly without any and perfectly embodied his pivotal role.

I am going to shock the world and say that I think this is Quentin Tarantino's most accomplished movie, it has all his trademark quirkiness and all the beautifully formed characters that fans will be used to, but Kill Bill volume two is a lot deeper, it feel like a true epic and he directs it very much like someone would a thriller. Sure there is gore but it is not the overpowering factor in the film (unlike the first Bill) there is a lot of tension throughout and the whole story

Pictures of Kill Bill Vol.2 (DVD)

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