Death Proof is superbly made. There's a terrible tension watching these beautiful and spirited young women getting too close to the flame, followed by enormous relief when the mood changes in the second story.
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11/17/07
Death Proof (2007)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:21
Rotten:12
Average Rating:5.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $0
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... [More]
Starring: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan, Tracie Thoms
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Reviews for Death Proof
Top CriticThe 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 CriticThis 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
"raja" koja voli Tarantina %u0107e imati itekako razloga da mu oprosti ovaj eksperiment.
04/10/08
Tarantino has literally lost the plot, foregoing narrative drive for loquacious idling.
09/05/07
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 CriticA well-controlled buildup of expectations, suspense, and character contrast.
11/05/07
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 CriticWhile 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
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
Clearly the work of somebody who has ingested Carol J. Clover's Men, Women, and Chainsaws, yet it is also more
08/27/09
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
A tedious, meaninglessly anachronistic project.
10/06/07
Feels much longer than it is.
02/14/08
Death Proof doesn't simply comment on its genre inspirations - it adds to their very legacy.
09/17/07
A waste of time. A waste of celluloid. A waste of talent.
09/21/07
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
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
Despite some benefits in sequences that feature Zoe Bell, the new cut, which is 111 minutes (and not 127 as listed in the program), also brings to the surface weaknesses, resulting in a bloated, self-important picture.
05/23/07
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
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