Wow! This is the most fun you will have watching a three hour movie. Cool and a double feature that's filled with it all.

Rating: 9/10 (6 April 2007)

I just saw "Grindhouse" and I must say that this picture rocks! This is the most fun anyone will have watching a film for three hours! You name it "Grindhouse" has it all thrills, chills, spills, action, drama, and just plain fun. It was really a neat ideal that two directing risk takers like Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez team up to do a double feature that mostly pays homage to the classic B movie genre of horror and sci-fi. This film is certainly a tribute to the days of exploitation films and squalor. "Grindhouse" is split up into two movies first is Robert Rodriguez's "Planet Terror" and then it's followed by Tarantino's "Death Proof". It's done in an old fashioned kind of way too, starting with scratchy mismatched prints, and odd ball trailers for make believe slasher films. The best trailer is the one for the gross slasher Thanksgiving that plays the theme music and pays homage to 80's horror films like "Creepshow", that helps sink the audience into well respected pop culture. Then the features begin with the twirling rainbow feature presentation.
First up is in my opinion the best tale "Planet Terror" which is portrayed in rural Texas and starts with a bang having Rose McGowan as a sexy and slick stripper, and the feel of this is done like being back into the 70's. This small town becomes the center of an all out terror in the form of flesh eating zombies that want to suck the life out of human beings and take over the nuclear weapons at the local military base, this then leads everyone involved on a wild chase of action, and the scenes done are mostly nonstop action of blood, shootings, car chases, and fighting with explosions probably the most action filled badness you will see in a movie in quite sometime. The actors in this tale don't miss a beat with good acting from Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, and Marley Shelton. And to me I like the McGowan character as to me she's an antihero a stripper who's trying to find love and fight the zombies while suffering a body part loss. Really Rodriguez gave this plenty of hyperbole like Rose McGowan ending up with a machine gun as a prosthetic leg. Now talk about a leg up on the competition! In the end "Planet Terror" ends as fairy tale for the small town people who conquer the blood sucking zombies, and because of the way it's done paying homage to low grade scenes of love and skin flesh it's remembered as an instant classic of perfection.
Next it's Tarantino's turn with "Death Proof" which isn't as good, but certainly entertains and has much more of a story to it. This stars veteran Kurt Russell as a cocky stuntman who will meet his match from some sexy trash talking females(Rosario Dawson and Zoe Bell) yet the endless jabbering and talk is a bit boring and long, it's just Quentin's way of providing an appetizer before the wild two car chase! Leaving the final showdown as brutal! Really it's nice to see movies like these that provide homage to old genre classics, and they provide many laughs, thrills and entertainment enjoyment, because it doesn't take things so serious. The blood, sex, and gory like this has certainly brought the glory feel back to the movies and plus it was done in a such a cool way of a double feature by two directors who often go against the establishment with their own outspoken methods.