As in many Tarantino films, his dialogue is never really specific to characters. It’s Tarantino’s world and everyone in it basically speaks the same way. But incredible actors like Thurman manage to make the lines her own.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 27, 2025

Kill Bill Volume 2 strikes with all the right chords and swords.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 22, 2025

It just can’t live up to the pacing and intensity – the rollercoaster ride – of its predecessor, feeling like a duller, inferior half, even if it presents an uncommonly suitable conclusion.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 8, 2024

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.

| 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.

| Jul 21, 2023

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

| 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.

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

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

| Jun 23, 2022

The sequel is the more potent package of the two.

| 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.

| 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]

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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 ...

| 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.

| Aug 15, 2012