Damn fine effort

Rating: 9/10 (7 April 2007)

This movie is explosive in all of the possible definitions. The critics I've read so far are mixed, and I think they just don't see the potential. So many films these days look for the "scare" or "gore" factor, ad they ALU l get stuffed together and seem like the same genre. There are two parts to this film "Planet Terror" and "Death Proof" and one is by Rodrigeuz and one is by Tarantino. "Planet Terror" is so over the top that you stop caring all together. It's blood ratio is par none, and it's violence is giddy and camp. The film is a great warm up for what is to come. There are great moments in "Planet Terror" but the real film starts with "Death Proof". This is not to ignore the trailers in between. They are hell incarnate, and if you have even mature kids, I would avoid the movie. But Death Proof is a mix of pure Tarantino {dialogue and wit) mixed with Steve McQueen action and throw backs to the best of car chases. Death Proof never gives up and never sticks with trends or architypes; better yet it plays upon them. Grindhouse as a whole is a technique and effort masterpiece, but it is Death Proof that stands above all and makes you wish that more movies didn't take themselves so seriously. Good fun, and art to it's outermost boundaries.