Ok so my title might not be very inspired but it's the title track of the film which I thought was fantastic and a clue to what the films are about...

After hearing so much about Kill Bill, Tarantino's fourth film, over the last couple of years, I caved and bought myself this 2 DVD box set from Amazon thinking I'd at least enjoy it somewhat and maybe even want to watch it again in the future.

WHAT ARE THE FILMS ABOUT?

Basically the 2 films 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.

WHO'S IN THEM?

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)!

WHAT DID I THINK OF THEM?

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.

Well I have to admit that I feel my purchase of the 2 DVD set wasn't a waste of money. I did really enjoy the films although I'm not generally a fan of so much blood and violence in movies. Having watched Kill Bill through till the end I was very eager to pop the second installment into the DVD player

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