Rodriguez knows....

Rating: 10/10 (18 August 2007)

Being a huge Robert Rodriguez fan for more than ten years my expectations were high, I can damn well tell you that. After hearing the news about the split, my heart ached, but last night the long wait of at least a year and a half reached its end and I finally got to see the new film from Robert Rodriguez, "Planet Terror."....
...Oh my God....
It was everything I hoped for and beyond the boundaries of my wildest dreams. I loved every little second of it! The movies pacing is like a madman and the characters are unbelievably 2 dimensional, but with heartwarming personalities. Nobody really has real dept, but the performances were so incredibly solid and fun to watch that it felt like every character was one of my favorites. I loved seeing Micheal Biehn and jeff Fahey! I loved seeing Josh Brolin and Bruce Willis! Tom Savini, Carlos Gallardo, Rose McOwen. And even though I first had my doubts about the casting of Freddy Rodriguez as a badass hero type, I loved the character of El Wray played by Freddy Rodriguez! He did a tremendous job and made a really memorable performance with this character. So did every one.
The great thing about this movie is; being a zombie flick, it reaches us viewers quite late in the whole zombie-revival thing that was going on with the "Dawn" remake, Shaun of the dead and Land of the dead. So that's actually quite ballsy, coming up with yet another zombiemovie. Robert Rodriguez pulls it off to make you forget that there even was this entire zombierevival and creates a movie that is unique within the "genre". Actually the man has his own genre and even in his genre it's quite unique. He makes a Robert Rodriguez flick with zombies... and a helluvalot more. See it. It blew my mind and it blew my mind all the way through the backwall of the theater. It was the most fun I'd had at the movies in years.