Kill Bill: Volume 2 is a 2004 American thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is the second of two volumes that were theatrically released several months apart. Kill Bill was originally scheduled for a single theatrical release, but with a running time of over four hours, it was separated into two volumes. Kill Bill Volume 1 was released in late 2003, and Kill Bill: Volume 2 was released in early 2004. The volumes follow a character initially identified as "The Bride", a former member of an assassination team who seeks revenge on her ex-colleagues who massacred members of her wedding party and tried to kill her. Kill Bill: Volume 2 is often noted for its stylish direction and its homages to film genres such as Hong Kong martial arts films, Japanese chanbara films, Italian spaghetti westerns, girls with guns, and rape and revenge.[citation needed]
In a flashback, the Bride (Uma Thurman) — visibly pregnant — and her groom (Chris Nelson) rehearse their wedding. Bill (David Carradine), her former lover and the leader of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, arrives unexpectedly and wishes her well, and it is revealed that the Bride had retired from assassination and left Bill in order to give a better life to her unborn daughter. Moments later, the other assassination squad members arrive and attack the wedding rehearsal on Bill's orders.
In the present, Bill warns his brother Budd (Michael Madsen), a former Deadly Viper and now a bouncer, that he will be targeted next. The Bride arrives at his trailer and bursts through the door, expecting to ambush him, but Budd is expecting her, shooting her in the chest with a double-barreled shotgun blast of rock salt, then sedates her. Budd calls Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), another former Deadly Viper, offering to sell her the Bride's Hanzō sword for a million dollars cash. He then seals the Bride inside a coffin and buries her alive.
A flashback shows Bill taking the Bride to be trained by legendary martial arts master Pai Mei (Gordon Liu). She eventually gains his respect and learns a number of techniques, including the art of punching through thick planks of wood from inches away, and a technique, taught to nobody else, of killing using apparently non-lethal touches to pressure points. She uses the former skill to break out of the coffin and claws her way to the surface.
Kill Bill: Volume 2 Elle arrives at Budd's trailer for their transaction but has hidden a lethal black mamba with her money, which kills him. She then tells Bill (by phone) that the Bride has killed Budd by putting a black mamba (the deadly viper that was the Bride's assassination squad code name) in his trailer, and that Elle has killed the Bride. As she exits the trailer, she is ambushed by the Bride, who had arrived there soon after Elle. In the middle of an all-out battle in the trailer, Elle taunts the Bride with the news that Elle had poisoned Pai Mei in revenge for his snatching out her eye when she called him a 'miserable old fool'. The Bride then plucks out Elle's remaining eye and leaves her screaming and thrashing about in the trailer with the black mamba.
Kill Bill: Volume 2
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Produced by Lawrence Bender
Written by Quentin Tarantino
Starring Uma Thurman
David Carradine
Lucy Liu
Vivica A. Fox
Michael Madsen
Daryl Hannah
Gordon Liu
Music by Robert Rodriguez
The RZA
Cinematography Robert Richardson
Editing by Sally Menke
Studio Miramax Films
A Band Apart
Distributed by Miramax Films
Release date(s)
April 16, 2004
Running time 136 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $55 million (shared with Volume 1)
Box office $152,159,461
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