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OFCS Rating: 89% Fresh |
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3/5 | "Maybe if Tarantino hadn’t sprinted so hard early on, he wouldn’t have run out of gas right when it mattered." |
| Film Threat |
| Chris Barsanti |
| "In her discernible contempt, Elle stands (and kicks, and punches, and shoots, and swordfights) in some opposition to Beatrix, whose ferocity is less mean than resolute." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
79/100 | "What leaps up at you immediately with Vol. 2 is that the completion of this story cycle marks a startling tonal shift from Vol. 1." |
| Cinemania |
| Dan Jardine |
A | "Quentin Tarantino's unabashed revenge epic evolves into a full-bodied, daring climax in Kill Bill Vol. 2." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
4/4 | "Mind-numbingly brilliant." |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
2/4 | "More is less in this needlessly talky, surprisingly unstylish, and disappointingly dull affair. Yet stitch together Vol. 1 & 2 and you've got a different story altogether." |
| Movie Boeuf |
| David N. Butterworth |
4/4 | "Though the movie's lack of violence ... might turn off impatient viewers, Volume 2 is ultimately a far more rewarding experience than its predecessor." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
B | "A film for the lovers of good filmmaking techniques despite the lesser qualities of the
subject-matter." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
2.5/4 | "Congratulations, Quentin Tarantino and Miramax. With Kill Bill, you single-handedly turned a brilliant motion picture into two lesser one's." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
5/5 | "Menos mal que no hay una Kill Bill Volumen 3, porque sería imposible imaginarse cómo Quentin Tarantino podría volver a superarse a sí mismo... una vez más." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
A- | "Watching it is like watching a symphony. You know every part, even for the lesser-used instruments, has been composed deliberately, with concern for the product as a whole." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
3/4 | "The sword doesn’t claim a single victim this go ‘round, thus claiming Tarantino’s pen as the mightier.
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| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
A | "The work of a filmmaker who, given a massive budget, got his jollies out of the way early, and then sat down to make something real." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
3.5/4 | "Tarantino’s pulverizing and oddly poetic exposition continues where it left off by steam-rolling its farfetched and flaunting escapist visual escapades to the ultimate limit" |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
B- | "Overall it may prove a letdown for those expecting the energy and deft takeoff-homage character of the previous film. Still, it has just enough going for it to get by." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
0/5 | "When not being a colossal bore, Tarantino takes pleasure in offending our moral sensibilities with his adoring portrait of a natural born killer with a thirst for revenge." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
3/4 | "Quentin Tarantino's gargantuan ego has prevented a masterpiece." |
| eCinemaCenter.com |
| Gabe Leibowitz |
B- | "VOL. 1 was inherently more fun -- more action, more style, more cool combat -- but even so, this latest effort is deeper, more resonant, and more complex." |
| Mixed Reviews |
| Gabriel Shanks |
3/4 | "The second movie is less kinetic but more satisfying." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
4/4 | "brings a genuinely surprising depth of feeling to the proceedings by filling in the emotional and narrative gaps left hanging in the first volume" |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
4/5 | "Second installment of Tarantino's meta-movie revenge fantasy is a very different film than Vol. 1, but just as good." |
| Netflix |
| James Rocchi |
3.5/4 | "Treads emotional waters that barely rippled the surface of Volume 1." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
9/10 | "Many sumptuous ingredients, perhaps more than necessary, ultimately and surprisingly delivering an operatic tale of the unstoppable force of motherhood." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Jeffrey Chen |
2.5/5 | "Those with indomitable patience may find some reward in the final half hour of Vol. 2." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Jeremiah Kipp |
7/10 | "I liked this movie, but it didn't bowl me over as much as the first volume did." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
95/100 | "Alone, or stitched onto the end of Volume 1, the second part of Kill Bill could not feel more satisfying." |
| FilmFocus |
| Joe Utichi |
8/10 | "Tarantino still hasn't a lot to say in Kill Bill 2, but he says it with such high style, you have to sit up and take notice." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
| "...a brilliant bit of showmanship on Tarantino's behalf." |
| Light Views |
| John Larsen |
10/10 | "Tarantino crafts tranquil conversational dialogue so powerful, I was practically moved to tears despite said conversation not being particularly emotional." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
3/4 | "'Tarantino deja un buen sabor de boca con esta cinta que es bastante más sólida e interesante que su antecesora.'" |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
2.5/5 | "The Kill Bill films leave me cold. For all their technical interest, the films still feel like an arrogant "aren't I clever and neato?" showboating move." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
4/4 | "Aside from the films’ contrary ambiences—which we might term excess vs. focus—this principle of twos reveals itself in Tarantino’s casting." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Keith Uhlich |
3.0/4 | "Someone old, someone bled, someone killed, someone dead." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
4/4 | "As much as I loved Kill Bill Vol. 1, it’s through Vol. 2 that it all comes together so beautifully." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
B+ | "After the sheer movie-mad pop sensibility and stylized violence of Vol. 1, Vol. 2 is a bit of a let down" |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
4/5 | "La unión de las dos partes convierte a la historia en una excelente cinta tatuada con la marca Tarantino." |
| Cinenganos |
| Luis Martinez |
4/5 | "The more intense your own relationship with movies, the harder it is to resist Tarantino's love of reinvigorating the exploitation icons of his youth and synthesizing the vivid movie-going experiences of his cherished memories." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
3/4 | "Vol. 2 is a great conclusion to a great (albeit, as of yet, nonexistent except in theory) film, but it is not a great film." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
3/4 | "Violence, revenge, style, music, and Uma Thurman. It's time for another volume of Kill Bill" |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
| "Chapter 75: Quentin Still Loves Himself (Lest You Thought It Was Only a Summer Thing)" |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3.5/5 | "At its best, [Tarantino's] referencing ... completely reimagin[es] the original for a new context. At its worst, it's simply name-dropping." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
4/4 | "This is bold, breathtaking cinema that makes me remember why I love the movies." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B- | "This movie, for all of its showmanship and technique, diminishes the first one." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
C | "Soulless." |
| Lessons of Darkness |
| Nick Schager |
4/5 | "Mesmo com todas as suas falhas, produz um número suficiente de surpresas narrativas que o situam acima da maior parte do lixo que Hollywood produziu em 2004." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
| "Satisfyingly funny, violent and well-acted that even those who dismissed the first part as being nothing but mindless action and gore will find much to enjoy this time around." |
| Critic Doctor |
| Peter Sobczynski |
4.5/5 | "Strong back-stories add a viscerally entertaining punch--scary, jarring, funny, touching--that keeps a smile firmly fixed on our face." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
5/5 | "Though Vol. 2's body count is of necessity smaller than that of its predecessor, the brutality hurts more here, and counts for more." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
B | " The first film felt like a blender set to 'high'; the second sits down and contemplates what came splattering out." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
C+ | "While the first movie was fun in a perverted, frenetic kind of way, the second volume is bloated, slow-moving, pretentious, and self-indulgent." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
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OFCS Rating: 89% Fresh |
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