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Death Proof is the 2nd part of director Quentin Tarantino's Grind House film. This movie is about a deranged stuntman named Mike (Kurt Russell) who uses his "Death Proof" car to kill people. It appears he has a taste for the ladies as women appear to be his favorite victim of choice. This film is actually a 2 parter. The first follows a group of girls in Austin, Texas. This is the hardest part of the film to get through as it is mind numbingly boring! We watch the girls drive around for awhile, stalked by Mike, until they finally arrive at a couple of bars. The girls drink, talk & are hit on by a few guys. Mike is there as well. The most interesting part of this segment is when one of the girls gives Mike a clothed lap dance. It's pretty erotic, but hardly worth the pain we went through to get here. The bar closes & everybody leaves. Mike offers to give one of the girls a ride home & shows her why his car is Death Proof. He later purposely wrecks himself into the others girls' car with some amazing carnage which we get to see girl by girl! It's a memorable blood bath! Part 2 takes place over a year later in Tennessee. Mike runs into a group of girls & decides they will make a perfect target for his next act of carnage. Again we are treated to more boredom as the girls go about their business & finally end up on a country road to look at a car for sale. 3 of the girls give it a 'test drive' while the 4th is left behind as collateral. Mike targets them, but will soon find that these girls are cut from a different cloth than he is used to & soon predator becomes prey in some amazing car chase scenes! This film has plenty of star power besides Russell. The cast is ladened with attractive actresses like Rose McGowen, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito & Sydney Tamaii Poitier(daughter of Oscar winner Sydney Poitier) & others who have done lots of time in the horror genre as well as directors Tarantino & Eli Roth. Famed female stuntwoman Zoe Bell also stars as a main character & is given plenty of opportunities to strut her stuff! This is a very tough film to watch because most of what is going on is very boring & hard to watch. Even the addition of a cast that features a variety of hot young actresses can not always get you through. The action segments more than make up for it & are awesomely unbelievable! Stick with it & you'll be glad you did or... just fast forward through all the boring parts! However, it should be watched start to finish at least once!Read full review
The second feature of Troublemaker Studios (the first was Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror) focuses on a disturbed ex-stuntman named Mike (Kurt Russell) who indulges on his sexual fetish that involves fast muscle cars and women. Director Quentin Tarantino--who is at that stage of his career wherein he is entitled to make the movies that he wants--fills his film with a more than a dozen of his interests ranging from his old films, defunct televisions shows, a Robert Frost poem, rare music recordings, muscle cars, and "Big Kahuna Burgers" among others. Death Proof stalls at the onset with unnecessary back stories for characters that die almost immediately. However, the story picks up when the scene shifts to Lebanon, Tennessee, wherein Stuntman Mike's latest victims turn the tables on him after a wild car sequence featuring the talents of stunt woman Zoe Bell (as herself).Read full review
I admit I think Tarentino is a total geek, but the Grindhouse flicks are pretty good. This one starts being a non girl power movie, but ends up a kick tushie girl flick you'll be rooting for over and over. (yup, its ok to rewind and watch poor Kurt get it over and over)I applaud the fact thats someone out there knows women can drive a car (not a toyota.. a real car, muscle car) & they take stupid gutsy challenges and love it. Ya for the who cares if you broke a nail kind of woman!! It does kind of drag on in the start, but ends up a true thriller. This is a womans T-shirt, jeans, ponytail, no makeup, just yourself beautiful and inner power, kick tushie kind of movie! Grab a thick milkshake and pizza and settle in for a movie that will have you out of your seat cheering in the end! No way kiddie friendlyRead full review
A movie as a tribute to the old Grindhouse classics of old Quentin Tarantino's tribute "Death Proof" showed us all what this genre of movie provided viewers in years past. This movie has a nice plot and was handled well for a split budget with Robert Rodriguez's "Planet Terror". The cheap effects helped the movie in adding suspense and contains some of the greatest stunt people you will ever see in one film. The only potential downfall for me is the use of elongated slow downs to help explain what has happened or to setup something else that will be happening in the movie. While it does help the movie progress it pulls you out of the movie and to outside distractions... like a clock.
Terrible movie and I literally threw it in the trash, lol. The protagonists have no redeemable qualities and it's impossible to root for them. Kurt Russell did the best he could with what he had to work with, but in the end he was victim of a badly misguided "Girl Power" film that was marketed as something much cooler. Quentin Taratino has wore out his welcome a long time ago. I've said many times that there is something that I call "The Hollywood Welfare System" and movies like this are proof of it. They gotta keep all of the actors, directors, crew, etc. working and they'll crank out whatever they can to keep the money flowing in. Steer clear of this so-called film and go watch Bullitt or Vanishing Point instead.
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