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A far supurior volume.
by Evan (movies profile)
Feb 2, 2005
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7 people found this review helpful
My god, I havent looked forward to and enjoyed a movie that much in a long time. I had much of the week leading up to the releaseof this off of school, and was searching the internet constantly for updates about this. The last movie I looked forward to this much was Kill Bill Vol 1. I was only the slightest bit let down, and still agree with the B+, low ***1/2 I gave it. As it is, this is Tarantinos third best film. If you count the two volumes as one film, the whole is better than Jackie Brown, while if you count the films as individuals, this is better than both Jackie Brown and Vol. 1.
The film opens with what Tarantino does best, dialogue, the element missing from vol. 1. There is a ten to fifteen minute scene at a wedding chapel, which show the events leading up to the massacre, and we get to see Bill for the first time. Chapter seven is her revenge on Budd, who is now a drunken bouncer for a bar. There is more great dialogue between Budd and his boss. Then after being shot and barried alive by Budd, the bride has a flashback to her schooling by an Oriental known as Pei Mei. The fight scene is incredible, with Pei Mei just dodging every one of her atempted sward blows, even by jumping on it. Yes, jumping on top of the sward. The next scene is the movies best fight scene. Elle and The Bride have a fight in Budds RV, and wreck the whole thing. Just when you think you're going to get a sward fight, you get something far more impresive, and to the point, to end the scene with. Then we come to the finale. The killing of Bill. While im sure that many viewers expected a huge fight and were let down, I myself loved all the speach between Carradine and Thurman. He gets to give a monologue about Superman, and they talk about the past, and so on. The finale we get is so much more satisfying than a huge fight.
This is a far better movie than Vol. 1. It's long, tense, funny, stylish and for the most part returns to the Tarantino stuff that I liked about Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.
Will this get any Oscar nominations? Not likely. Although it could easily claim to be the best reviewed movie of the year so far(No fooling) it was released to erily in the year to get noticed. The only person that has a shot of getting nominated is David Carradine, who is perfect as Bill. I loved every minute he was on screen. I mean, how often to you see a villain who is Barefoot for the last thirty minutes? How often in movies do we get to here the Badguys point of view? Take any James Bond movie. We know who is bad before James does, but how often do we actually care about them dying? Never. I actually cared about Bill's point of view. Bravo Mr. Carradine.
Of all 15 critical reviews on Yahoo, only two are negitive, and both are comparing it to Vol. 1. People, get an attention span. Many people have said that they want a DVD released of the original 3-hour version. That would cut off an hour of this movie. Although I would like to see the original, I would rather own a version of the entirety of both movies.
This has a chance of topping my top-10 list of 2004, and will certainly land in the top-5.
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