Rate It
|
||||||||||||||||
Rating Averages
My Friends |
Not rated. () |
|
|
|---|---|---|---|
All Flixster |
(49481) |
47332 |
63445 |
Female |
(28563) |
27756 |
38389 |
Male |
(20918) |
19576 |
25056 |
More Like This
If you liked this, then you'll also probably like...
Got another recommendation for someone who liked this movie? Add it to the list!
Got an opinion? Use the buttons to vote on all the suggestions people have added.
If lots of people vote, the best suggestions will rise to the top.
| Planet Terror (91%) |
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Kill Bill, Volume 1 (70%) |
|
|
| Machete (91%) |
|
|
| Reservoir Dogs (60%) |
|
|
| Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (75%) |
|
|
Plot:
A creepy stunt driver whose taste for stalking lovely young ladies gets him into big trouble when he tangles with the wrong gang of badass babes. Their confrontation escalates to an extended mano-...( read more 
)
This was release with Planet Terror and a bunch of fake trailers and was called Grindhouse, though Grindhouse is not a movie itself that needs a separate profile.
Skin art by
BanaticAKAHillhero. Unskin this page.
Meet Other Fans
-
ONLINE NOW -
ONLINE NOW -
-
-
-
-
-
Recent Reviews
-
MCT:May 14, 2008The head-on collision scene was the best! Very gnarly and violent! The best film of '07, wish I would've seen it in theaters.
-
MCT:May 14, 2008Note to self: characters blathering on about absolutely nothing doesn't make us care for them when they get slaughtered.
-
MCT:May 14, 2008The trouble with doing a pastiche of a film movement that almost exclusively turned out terrible movies is that you run the very real risk of turning out a terrible movie yourself. This is the core problem that Tarantino tries desperately to find a way out of - with very mixed results. Because of this semi-paradox- homaging crap movies with a movie that's actually good - Death Proof is kind of caught between a rock and a hard place, with the result of it being extremely uneven and very frustrating.
Sometimes the film is very funny, with typically sparkling Tarantino dialogue, and packaged together with all the verve and energy you've come to expect from the director. Other times the dialogue is as numbingly dull as your typical Grindhouse effort, seeming to go on for hours with little purpose, and directed with all the skill of a QVC Info-mercial. Sometimes the unashamedly male fantasy-fuelled female archetypes are likeable and empowering, other times they come across as obnoxious and gratingly unconvincing. Sometimes Kurt Russell is clearly putting his heart and soul into his plum role, and others he appears to be striving for laid-back but simply seeming disinterested. I could go on and on, but you get the idea.
Overall, this is an interesting experiment and is not without its moments of humour and the director's trademark cool, but is unsatisfying in almost every respect, and as such easily goes down as Tarantino's worst film to date. -
MCT:May 13, 2008Quentin got a little too full of himself and tried to do too much. Works better as the double feature.
-
MCT:May 13, 2008
Tarantino's weak spot is also his strong point: referentiality.
This film is chock full of it. References to his own films and of course, grindhouse cinema. As a film that pays homage to grindhouse cinema, it was faithful. It even had a deliberate threadbare plot and plenty of fake editing goofs.
However, as a film for film's sake, this falls short of greatness. There were some very cool scenes, but it was mostly boring, lacking coolness and just not entertaining enough.
My Friends Said...
Death Proof Recent Reviews
Register or sign-in to see your friends' reviews !
Comments
-
NicoA17posted 84 days ago -
Nice to see a challenger kick ass. Love the car chase till the end. And rosario's betty hairstyle was hot!! And don't get me started on the music!!
posted 91 days ago -
n awesome homage to '70's car chase films and so much more. An exploitation flick about an insane serial killer, Stuntman Mike, who kills women with his souped-up Dodge, stunt car. I absolutely loved this film. Intriguing characters, and awesome Tarantino diaologue are two of the many things that set this film apart from other violent action flicks. Wonderful touches such as grainy images and jump cutting make the viewer feel like they're actually watching a film at the drive-in circa 1970. The climactic car chase at the end is not to be missed!
posted 190 days ago -
Ok - The grindhouse concept is cool, and it worked out ok for Planet Terror which I thought was entertaining. I ddin't think the same of this one. What is the use of making a film look old when it plays in modern times? The "old" theme was used throughout the film by means of old neon-lit bars with jukeboxes and old cars, but if you also see modern cars and cellphones, it kind of kills the effect. I am a great fan of dialogue in a film, but it must be meaningful. The dialogue was long, boring an tireing. The ending car-chase was long and the end of the movie was just absurdly abrupt. Tarantino may have produced oscar-winning titles, this stuff is, in my eyes, absolute junk.
posted 194 days ago -
-
It takes at least 35-40 mins for someone to die in this film.I did like the concept for Death Proof & Kurt Russell performance but the film needed more action not unnecessary dialog that takes forever & becomes boring.
posted 240 days ago -
-
