Planet Si, Death No!

Rating: Null/10 (2 November 2007)

Can 't give Grindhouse a number because it would be overly generous to "Death" and unfair to "Planet." If I did 'twould be a 5 because "Death" gets a 1 and "Planet" a 10. The word for "Death" is BOOOORRRRIIIINNNGGGGGGGG!! A total of roughly 1 hour 40 minutes of useless dialog between uninteresting characters and maybe 10 minutes (maybe more) of car action that the "Mad Max" movies did better. Sorry, Q, you blew this one to hell. Even fast-forwarding through the dull stretches I actually had time to sit there and wonder where Kurt Russell's psycho would get the scratch for his cars to do this silliness more than once. Seems a reedickle-dockle way of killing girls. And Micheal Parks' cameo is the most superfluous time waster since the bar scene in "Desperado." "Planet Terror", now, is great. A combo of "Dusk Till Dawn" and "Night of the Living Dead", this is probably the goriest GOOD flick I've seen since "Reanimator" and "Bride of." It's balls to the wall, pedal to the metal, with enough surprises to keep things supercharged. Glad I didn't see this duo in the theaters, if "Death" came first I'd never have made it to "Planet" which would've been a pity.