Bird on a Wire (1990)

Mel Gibson's mullet and wild-eyed "loose cannon" routine feels self-conscious and tired here - after Lethal Weapon 1 and 2 - but he and Goldie Hawn generate chemistry together, and occasional laughs, as former lovers fleeing killers from his pre-witness protection life, and helping bind the wafer-thin plot, action and comedy together into a palatable something is the Neville Brothers' easy-listening cover of Leonard Cohen's Bird On A Wire.

★★★☆☆

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Kill Bill Volume 2 (2004)

The superior second half of Quentin Tarantino's four-hour revenge opus continues the Bride's bloody quest to kill those on her Death List 5 and continues the director's trademark devil-may-care enthusiastic film-making.

★★★★☆

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Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)

Quentin Tarantino abandons narrative conventions and any concerns other writer-directors might have regarding style, taste and decorum, and has a blast introducing his Nameless Bride and setting her on her four-hour murderous path of revenge that was only at the last minute before its cinema release sliced into two halves as if by the swoosh of Hattori Hanzo steel; as it turns out, this first half is concluded in an even better second half, Kill Bill Volume 2.

★★★★☆

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