Review of Death Proof (2007) by Christopher G — 05 May 2012

Oh, Kurt Russel. As much as I love you as an actor, even you weren't enough to save this wandering headache of a structureless disaster. I was bored out of my mind while I was watching this. Granted, it was an interesting take on the old B-movie double features, but it just falls flat under pretension. Tarantino may be a quick wit when it comes to dialogue, but once you cut through the crackin' whip that the characters have, what they have to say really isn't all that interesting.

The story begins with a set of party girls and later follows another set of girls that might as well be the same group of people. The film takes forever to cut to the chase and the story arch is extremely foggy. And all of the characters seem to be the same exact smarmy girl smartasses all the way around.They seemed to be all the same. It's strange to me that we take over a half hour overdeveloping these one dimentional characters that have no likability beyond being sluts just to have them all offed and then introduce, essentially exactly the same people! There was no dynamic between the characters.

While I can't deny that there is a rather satisfying and gruesome payoff at the end of the film, I cannot get past how long the film lags on through uninteresting dialogue that doesn't add to what little story there is and unlikable characters. It's a film that loses itself in its own aimless dialogue and foggy character development and is essentially about nothing. If style is key, then we've obviously changed the locks.