Is it just me? Poor second half.

Rating: 7/10 (28 May 2007)

OK, so everyone is raving about this movie. So they should - great idea, great trailers, great opening movie by RR. However, Death Proof just completely misses for me. If this was a stand alone movie I would give it 4, 2 points for each main car crash. Either the dialogue is over verbose or the actors just aren't good enough to pull it off. I haven't decided yet. There is a reason that Zoe Bell is a stunt-woman and not an actress - quite simply she can't act and is painful to watch. Quite honestly I was bored, yes the set pieces are some of the greatest ever but thats a cosy 10 minutes, the rest is padded with overly clever lines and general self indulgence by QT. Condense it down to a 30 min runtime and it would be cool- I'd rather watch the trailer for Machete 10 time than endure this again. Rated 7 overall as Planet Terror is easily a 9.