PAUL KEAVENY

THE second instalment of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill saga will hit the big screen this week - and it will have to pack a mighty punch to live up to volume one.

The epic tale stars the lovely Uma Thurman as a former assassin out to seek revenge against her erstwhile and deadly double-crossing colleagues.

Thurman, as The Bride, goes in search of the mysterious Bill, played by David Carradine, and his gang of killers after they murdered her husband and put her in a coma, killing her unborn baby at the same time.

No wonder she's a tad peeved then?

The first volume was a gore festival of blood with more claret than you can shake a samurai sword at and the second film shows very few signs of turning into an introspective study of morality.

But it does look like being the film that catapults Tarantino back on to the top of the Hollywood Christmas card list.

Lovers of the first film have been waiting with bated breath for part two to find out who the father of her baby was and what the 'special relationship' between The Bride and Bill really is.

It's out nationwide tomorrow, Friday.