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who looks like a sweet innocent schoolgirl, even to the extent of dressing like one, but who is as deadly as her mistress. Lucy Liu was fantastic in her role, I gasped when her character slices off someone's head for mentioning her mixed parentage and then proceeds to tell a boardroom full of bad guys very calmly with a sweet smile on her face that she is ready for any kind of feedback from them (with her right hand woman Sofie translating in Japanese as she speaks) but any mention of her mixed heritage will make her start collecting their heads! Thurman's fight scene with Liu was a work of art, out in a beautiful snowy setting and their fight was like a spectacular dance, nothing less than amazing! Before The Bride gets to fight O-Ren she has to get past Gogo, Sofie and members of the Crazy 88 in elaborate fight scenes that seemed to go on forever!

I was rather disappointed with Michael Madsen's role in the films, he is a Tarantino regular but I'm not really enamored of him. I found his character in the films to be the blandest of the lot and the least important to some degree but others might feel differently. It was extremely bizarre to see Darryl Hannah in such a role, she wears an eye patch throughout the film and it's not till her showdown with The Bride that we learn what happened to her eye. If you're used to seeing Darryl Hannah in quite gentle, ladylike and soft roles, you're in for a shock. She plays the complete opposite of her normal roles here and I felt she carried it off rather well.

David Carradine is seen on and off during the two films - in flashback mode and present day mode. Carradine is someone I remember from my childhood watching him in the TV series Kung Fu which I thoroughly enjoyed. In recent years, he has often been typecast as the villain in films and TV series and his role in Kill Bill is quite difficult to really categorize. Is he a villain? Or really the head of a gang (albeit an assassination squad yes but still someone with feelings) whose emotions got the better of it which led to his doing what he did to The Bride? Can you believe this guy was 67-68 when he did Kill Bill and he was pretty good in the action scenes, pretty good going for someone his age? Also not surprising that he won Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.

I thought I might add here that there's even something in Kill Bill Volume 1 for fans of anime, which I personally haven't

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