Review of Death Proof (2007) by Aladin R — 27 Nov 2015

This movie is one of the movies featured in the Grindhouse, the other being Planet Terror. It's directed by Quentin Tarantino and it follows a group of girls on a night out, just having a good time.

During the night, they meet this guy that calls himself Stuntman Mike who, apparentely, likes to crash cars with civilians in them! That's about it. Oh, the girls that are introduced in the first 40 minutes of the film, die.

Then we get introduced to yet another group of girls. *sigh* The story is meh. There's too much talking and build-up. There's like 10 minutes of car action in this entire movie! Everything else is girls talking to each other, which would've been fine if the characters were good and interesting.

At least, the acting was good and I really liked Kurt Russell in this. I loved the tone shift when he starts to take one of the girls home, though the scene only lasts about 5 minutes and then we're back to 40 more minutes of nothing interesting happening.

The soundtrack was great, I'll have to find some of the songs. The ending was great. I really liked how the whole situation turned against Mike. It was fun to watch it. And then it ended, just like that.

All in all, a dissapointing Tarantino movie with good acting, soundtrack and action (when there is any), but there's too much character "development" for this kind of a movie and sometimes it's stuck between dull and boring.

I wouldn't really recommend seeing this movie, but Planet Terror is great, so check that one out.