by Anony Mili

Created on: June 24, 2009   Last Updated: November 26, 2011

Kill Bill  volumes1 & 2 are about "The Bride", a professional assassin, who wakes up in hospital after a 4 year coma and goes on a killing spree. She's determined to kill the 4 people she believes are responsible for putting her in hospital as well as for killing her unborn baby, fianc and all of the people present for her wedding including the reverend and his wife. It seems Bill, her ex boss was not happy with her getting married and leaving the "gang" to get married and live her life as a "normal person" so arranged for the slaughter of everyone at the wedding.

"The Bride" goes about getting her revenge in a bloodthirsty way and it has to be seen to be believed how she avenges those who wronged her and how she deals with Bill in the climax of Kill Bill 2.

Uma Thurman stars as The Bride/Kiddo with Bill Carradine as the elusive Bill, Lucy Liu as O-Ren Ishii, Daryl Hannah as Elle Driver, Michael Madsen as Budd, Vivica Fox as Vernita Green, Julie Dreyfus as Sofie, Chiaki Kuriyama as Gogo, Sonny Chiba as Hattori Hanzo and Gordon Liu as Pai Mei (and weirdly enough Johnny Mo)! 

I vaguely knew what the films were about before I watched them but hadn't realised that I would have been really stumped with the storyline if I had only watched the first film without having the second installment to watch straight after! I am not Tarantino's greatest fan by any means but have seen several of his films over the years and particularly enjoyed Reservoir Dogs, From Dusk Till Dawn and Jackie Brown. This isn't particularly relevant but I just wanted to explain why I went out and brought the 2 film DVD set without having first seen the films on TV as I usually do with other movies. 

Uma Thurman as The Bride/Kiddo was pretty amazing. I can't imagine any other Hollywood actress pulling off this role as she did. To say she kicked a LOT of @$$ in this film would be putting it lightly. It was extremely far-fetched but the action scenes were pretty amazing to watch in general (if you try to block out of your mind just how unrealistic it all was). Some of the scenes almost looked like extremely well choreographed dance scenes and the background music fit in with it all perfectly to add to the atmosphere. One can only assume Thurman went through a lot of training to perform those moves (obviously stunt doubles must have been used for some of the more elaborate action scenes. The film is fast-moving from start to finish in both installments and I didn't really feel

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