The best $6 I've ever spent

Rating: 9/10 (9 April 2007)

Read whole review at http://www.imthenews.com/article/72 | To be honest, when I first heard about Grindhouse I wasn't familiar with the name nor the subject matter, however two other names attached to that word rang a bell; Rodriguez and Tarantino, and I was fully aware of what those two names meant.
Grindhouse showcases what started these two directors love affair with film and film-making. If you aren't familiar with the grindhouse genre film, you're not alone because this form of film making essentially disappeared from American landscape after the 80's. A grindhouse flick was usually a low budget, over the top and usually exploitive movie that typically took a nihilistic interpretation of your standard cinematic vices of sex, drugs, violence for fast thrills and quick cash for their filmmakers. The showcases for these films were usually grindhouse cinemas that were mostly found in dilapidated urban areas in which two exploitation films are shown back to back for the price of one admission. Grindhouse the movie is nearly a three hours long homage to the spirit of these films and the long gone era that incubated and spawned these films. A notable staple of these films are the fake trailers that come before and in the middle of the movie, these trailers are completely over the top and hilarious and if you loved this movie as I did, don't be surprised to find yourself walking out of the theatre quoting lines from these fake coming attractions.
If you haven't heard of either Quentin Tarantino or Robert Rodriguez then you might want to stop reading this review and step outside of your cold war era bunker and proceed to the nearest video store. With both directors coming off from previous hit films; Robert Rodriguez with Sin City and Quentin Tarantino with Kill Bill, they are ready to get audiences onboard with another aesthetic piece of work, and boy was I not a disappointed.