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 CriticThere's plenty of fun to be had with Death Proof, but its imitation of a defunct, low-budget style of movie-making is perhaps too accurate when it comes to the genre's flaws.
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
What's new in Death Proof? Well, a lot of jibber-jabber. It's Tarantino jibber-jabber -- quick and juicy and deadpan and blunt and baroque -- but it's jibber-jabber nonetheless, minor time-filler between a few moments of twisted-metal glory or twisted-hum
06/04/07
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
Feels much longer than it is.
02/14/08
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
Seriously entertaining American filmmaking and definitely not the half-serious pastiche it could easily have been. No seatbelt, no airbag, no nuthin’ — just Tarantino driving wildly under the influence.
09/21/07
Top CriticDeliberately 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
Tarantino has literally lost the plot, foregoing narrative drive for loquacious idling.
09/05/07
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
If you want to do this material justice... hold off on it until the release of Planet Terror and then watch them both together.
09/17/07
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 CriticWith 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
"raja" koja voli Tarantina %u0107e imati itekako razloga da mu oprosti ovaj eksperiment.
04/10/08
A waste of time. A waste of celluloid. A waste of talent.
09/21/07
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
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
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