CHOPPING BLOCK.(Kill Bill Vol. 2)(Movie Review)

Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill Vol. 2" is a shapeless mess, but at least it's not as monotonous as "Kill Bill Vol. 1." It has some landscape and some odd characters, whereas the earlier movie consisted mostly of sliced-cranium combat scenes and lacquered-glitz interiors and mock emotions like "anger" and "grief" that linked the fight episodes the way a thin string might hold a set of glittering flea-market jewels. "Kill Bill Vol. 1" was sequenced, but it wasn't really plotted; it had faces, bodies, and limbs (often severed), but it didn't have characters; it had spasmodic action but nothing approaching dramatic life. The heroine, Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman), known as ...