Review of Grindhouse (2007) by Michaelb. — 06 Apr 2007

I really wanted to love this move, but I ended up just liking it. "Planet Terror" has all the right ingredients: violence, sex, zombies, violence, corrupt military guys, explosions, violence.

.. It is definitely the stronger of the two movies. "Death Proof" on the other hand, was a bit of a disappointment. There was just way too much tedious, irrelevant dialog (even for a Tarantino movie).

QT tries to focus your attention on certain things (what were Jungle Julia's text messages all about?), and then never follows through to any logical conclusion. His new schtick seems to be introducing the audience to inane characters that you don't really care about and are almost glad when they are killed off (see "Hostel").

You can easily skip the first 30 to 45 minutes of "Death Proof" and not miss anything important. As a whole, "Grindhouse" is definitely worth seeing, but I would make it a renter so you can skip through the boring parts.