Kill Bill Vol. 2 Critic Reviews

The most voluptuous comic-book movie ever made. Read the full review

Watching Thurman's character "triumph" in a context as joyless and self-referential as Tarantino's is a soul-deadening experience, one that over two hours takes on the same dreary monotone as the cheapest pornography. Read the full review

For all its relative subtlety, Kill Bill, Vol. 2 remains a cartoon: Its wit is broadsword rather than rapier, and its motives are elemental. The banter is second-tier Tarantino: a cut above his imitators, but below the standard set by "Pulp Fiction" and "Jackie Brown."Read the full review

As it currently stands, Kill Bill is a victim of its director's ego and its distributor's greed. The moments of greatness make it worth seeing, and there's certainly plenty of entertainment to be found here, but it's hard not to lament what might have been. Read the full review

Here's an entertainment to warm the heart of anyone who grew up (or failed to) on the formative joys of action movies. Read the full review

Kill Bill-Vol. 2 puts to shame doubts entertained about aesthetic strategies or structural imbalance provoked by "Kill Bill-Vol. 1." Now that the entirety of Quentin Tarantino's epic revenge melodrama is on view, "Kill Bill" emerges as a brilliant, invigorating work, one to muse over for years to come. Read the full review

There's no denying that when it comes to communicating a certain delirious romanticism of character shaped by thousands of hours spent sitting in the dark, the artist who made this showpiece is a master. Read the full review

Few filmmakers love movies as intensely; fewer still have the ability to remind us why we fell for movies in the first place. Read the full review

It's a comic book at heart, albeit a thoroughly, grandly romantic one in the end. Read the full review