had much experience of. When we learn of how O-Ren Ishii becomes the deadly assassin and underworld leader that she becomes, the flashback scenes are done in anime. I'm no expert but I thought these were done extremely well and had great impact in the film.

Oh and in case you were wondering, when it comes to background music used in films, I'm not a great fan but I did enjoy ALL of the music used in the Kill Bill films, especially the title track "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" by Nancy Sinatra - I thought it was a fabulously apt song as the title track!

TO CONCLUDE

To be quite frank I am not sure why anyone would buy one Kill Bill DVD without the other as doing a quick bit of research on the net or just talking to people who've seen the films will let you know that you need to watch the second one to make sense of it all. I would say that overall it's an extremely violent film and will really only appeal to fans of Tarantino films and fans of fast moving action films - not that I am a great fan of either but I am happy to give this film a strong 9 out of 10. I really enjoyed it all for some reason, even if the violence did make me cringe several times. I just found it overall to be quite a well directed and acted film all round with some spectacular action scenes especially in the second half of the first film which was probably my favorite from the two films as a whole.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Run time: Kill Bill volume 1 & 2 = 242 minutes

Film Release Date(s): Kill Bill 1 = October 2003, Kill Bill 2 = April 2004

DVD Release Date: Jan 2005

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Producer: Lawrence Bender

Music by: Robert Rodriguez

Cinematography: Robert Richardson

Art Direction: Daniel Bradford (both films) & Hidefumi Hanatani (volume 1 only)

Certification: 18

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