Rose McGowan was the only bright spot, for me

Rating: 6/10 (17 April 2007)

This was a huge disappointment. I like Freddy Rodriguez but he seemed miscast and that caused the whole first segment to sputter in the wrong places. I did enjoy Marley Shelton's and Josh Brolin's performances as a married couple of doctors. And Kurt Russell was appropriately seedy and demented and a good foil for Sydney Tamiia Poitier's Jungle Julia. But the best part, for me, was Rose McGowan's Cherry Darling. What an impossibly gorgeous creature this woman is! And that she was willing to take this part makes me wonder what she's like in person. No way she's dull, as I just assumed she had to be to be in that 'Charmed' TV series.
There are good and original and evocative parts of this movie, I particularly liked the well understood Texas flavor of 'Planet Terror', but they're not enough to justify sitting there for 3 hours, in my opinion. There's a nice quality to 'Death Proof' but it's mostly in the girl talk which has limited appeal for guys. And who would dare promise a lap dance from Jungle Julia and then renege on the deal?