Twenty years later, "Kill Bill, Vol. 2" is not the career-worst catastrophe it felt like then. Despite a great performance from David Carradine, this frustratingly inconsistent back half remains burdened by handling every emotional beat of the story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2024

Unlike Vol. 1, Vol. 2 is more leisurely paced and less action-oriented, allowing for far more of the rich, idiosyncratic dialog Tarantino is known for.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2023

It’s Tarantino’s idiosyncratic style that makes it transcend those previous, lesser-known works...

Full Review | Jun 5, 2023

"Kill Bill" is a celebration of cinema. But with Volume 2 (Tarantino) adds layers of humanity and pathos that makes this more than a filmmaker indulging his inner cinephile.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

Not quiiite as good as Vol. 1 (what is?), but the David Carradine scenes sure are.

Full Review | Jun 23, 2022

The sequel is the more potent package of the two.

Full Review | Jun 10, 2021

Kill Bill is not a critique of sadistic bullying, it revels in it. ... The film itself is oppressive and bullying, as well unpleasantly pleased with itself.

Full Review | Feb 15, 2021

Not as electric as the first part, yet Tarantino excels by entertaining you with more words than punches. David Carradine is fantastic in quite the juicy, memorable role. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 29, 2020

Carradine is fantastic as Bill, while Thurman deserves consideration for an Academy Award nomination with her performance as the Bride.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Nov 16, 2019

Tarantino's attempt to inject a more solemn tone as the narrative reaches its climax creates an awkward mesh with the proceeding pulpiness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2019

To watch a Tarantino film is to surrender wholeheartedly to his giddy genius, and this, his magnum opus, is no exception.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 5, 2019

n the hyper-kinetic Kill Bill 1 you didn't know when the end happened, in Vol 2 you often wish the proceedings could hurtle to the finale, fast.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 7, 2019

Vol. 2 fills in the motivational and emotional blanks that left the first movie tasting like a meal made only of appetizers.

Full Review | Mar 13, 2018

I don't even want to do Tarantino and his pathetic accomplices the honour of recounting the narrative of the second "volume" of this exercise in trashpedalling, and frankly I don't need to, because there isn't a plot to speak of.

Full Review | Jan 9, 2018

Where KB1 had the pace of an ADHD six-year-old on a sugar high, KB2 has been Ritalinized, its tempo slowed to a crawl in self-conscious, and self-defeating, imitation of Sergio Leone. It's two hours that feel like five.

Full Review | Jan 5, 2018

Where Volume 1 is about action, Volume 2 is talk, Tarantino's stock in trade, and it's good (if somewhat long winded) talk. It's also another roll call of Tarantino's cinematic loves ...

Full Review | Jul 29, 2016

It has its moments, and Thurman is an appealing heroine. But on the whole, this is a disjointed, disappointing and monstrously self-indulgent exercise.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2012

If Kill Bill - Vol. 1 was like a roundhouse kick to the head, Vol. 2 is practically a warm hug.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2012

Sequel just as over-the-top explicitly violent.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 24, 2010

Although it's a gigantic shame that Miramax split Quentin Tarantino's long awaited 'kung-fu samurai Spaghetti Western love story' epic into two halves, "Kill Bill Vol. 2" pays off in spades...

Full Review | Original Score: A | May 6, 2009