Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Less relentlessly action-packed than its predecessor, Quentin Tarantino's follow-up to KILL BILL: VOL. 1 slows down to let the story breathe without losing the simmering energy that keeps it moving purposefully towards its appointed end: the showdown between the blood-spattered Bride (Uma Thurman) and the man who very nearly killed her. When we last saw the Bride, she had killed two of the five individuals responsible for the notorious El Paso, Texas, Two Pines church bloodbath that killed her groom-to-be (Chris Nelson), friends and the Reverend Harmony and his wife (Bo Svenson, Jeannie Epper). The pregnant bride was left comatose with a bullet in her brain, and the ...