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11/17/07
Death Proof (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 31 Fresh: 19 Rotten:12 Average Rating: 5.6/10
Synopsis: Master director Quentin Tarantino (PULP FICTION) indulges his inner fanboy by paying homage to his favorite B-movies in DEATH PROOF. Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) stalks beautiful women with his deadly vintage car, but when he picks a trio of tough girls (Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, and... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan, Tracie Thoms, Zoe Bell
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Top Critic
The problem for Tarantino in Death Proof is that the girl talk that occupies so much of the running time is anything but true to the culture 50 years ago. The setting is contempo, but the movie style is period
10/27/07
Top Critic
Tarantino has merely used grindhouse as a jump off point to create a thumping movie experience akin to a headache without the pain.
05/25/08
"raja" koja voli Tarantina %u0107e imati itekako razloga da mu oprosti ovaj eksperiment.
04/10/08
A well-controlled buildup of expectations, suspense, and character contrast.
11/05/07
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10/06/07
Top Critic
I've rarely seen a filmmaker, in current Hollywood at least, expose his sexual and sadistic kinks on screen with such shameless glee.
10/06/07
Deliberately designed to look like a low-grade B-flick from the Fifties, this slasher adventure from Quentin Tarantino is a guaranteed treat for that rare film fan nostalgic about the worst era in cinema.
09/29/07
While playing by the rules--scantily clad women, sudden brutality, straightforward narrative--he also gleefully subverts the genre to keep us thoroughly entertained.
09/21/07
Tarantino has a blast with this affectionate nod to '70s exploitation flicks, but the dialogue isn't as good as it should have been.
09/21/07
The dialogue with which Tarantino is usually adept is disastrously clunky, the filmmaking largely without flair and even the apeing of the smears and scratches of the schlock originals seems ridiculous.
09/21/07
Next to Kill Bill, this is only 50 per cent proof, but the last car chase will have you hanging on for dear life.
09/21/07
With its scratchy print, jerky editing and retro title sequence, Quentin Tarantino's fifth film bends over backwards to establish its Seventies sexploitation-flick credentials.
09/21/07
This blend of girlie action flick with retro car-chase movie scores nought out of 10 for artistic expression but four for amiable delinquency.
09/21/07
A horror-comic splatterfest set in 2007, but somehow filmed in 1972, about a posse of women taking revenge on a murderous, misogynist stunt-driver.
09/21/07
Top Critic
Death Proof is an out-and-out dud, a film so profoundly dull, so relentlessly misguided, so criminally self-indulgent you almost feel bad criticising it. It’s like kicking a man on crutches.
09/21/07
The appalling dialogue, mostly about the sexual predilections of his half-naked female cast, is so garbled, spotty and tedious that it fails to sell interest in a single character.
09/21/07
Top Critic
No need to buckle up, Death Proof is stuck in the slow lane. Self-indulgent and uninspired, bankrollers Bob and Harvey Weinstein should have reined in Tarantino with a genuine Grindhouse-sized budget.
09/21/07
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