2' is the more traditional Quentin Tarantino film. The first half of the story is breathlessly paced and features some amazingly elaborate martial arts action sequences. 1', Tarantino had set about to make an all-out action movie. As she makes her way to wrap things up with this trio, we're also served an extensive flashback to The Bride's training with the mystical kung-fu master Pai Mei (Gordon Liu, in a role derived from several Shaw Bros. Still deserving of bloody retribution are Budd (Michael Madsen), Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) and of course Bill (David Carradine), her former mentor and lover and the man who put the bullet in her head. 2' picks up after the vengeful Bride (Uma Thurman) has crossed the first two names off her "Death List Five" – the tally she keeps of her former colleagues in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad who betrayed and left her for dead. Each volume of 'Kill Bill' plays stronger individually than if the two had been combined. Artistically, Tarantino made the right choice. Not only was the material too broad in scope and unwieldy to be contained within a two hour runtime, its separate halves are very tonally different than one another. This turned out to be a baseless complaint. When Quentin Tarantino first announced that his eagerly-awaited kung-fu epic 'Kill Bill' would be divided into two films to be released a few months apart, the decision was greeted with skepticism by some viewers who, having heard that the project was originally scripted as a single film, accused the director of trying to bilk them into paying twice to see the end of one movie.
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