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Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)
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Movie Review by Justin 
February 12th, 2006
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With this second installment, the boy genius Quentin Tarantino proves he's got a story to tell. Toning down the body count and savoring the ironies of his increasingly complex revenge tale, he adds shading to the crude draft called vol. 1. He expands and deepens the mythology by fleshing his characters out; he gives them wit, humor, and vulnerability. The final act is a doozy – Tarantino collects all the component parts into a confrontation that is at once thrilling, sad, deep, and that achieves a real poetic grandeur. He's got a knack for revitalizing the stuff of tired genres, and in much the same way as he did for noirish smut with "Pulp Fiction," Tarantino here turns a blood-soaked homage of kung-fu flicks into a textured, tragic tale of love and loss. Pulling more from the film influences of Western and Samurai this go-around, he has made a beautiful elegy of the warrior spirit. In a way, this is the film Tarantino has been working toward since the inception of his career. His judgment is precise, savage, and uncompromising -- he's not just playing giddy film student, he's made a truly inspired work, a near-transcendent movie.
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