Monday, March 3, 2008

Death Proof

AKA:
Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof (USA)
Quentin Tarantino's Thunder Bolt! (USA)
Thunder Bolt (USA)

Written by:
Quentin Tarantino

Directed by:
Quentin Tarantino

Made in:
USA in 2007

Actors:
Kurt Russell ... Stuntman Mike
Zoe Bell ... Herself (as Zoë Bell)
Rosario Dawson ... Abernathy
Vanessa Ferlito ... Arlene
Sydney Tamiia Poitier ... Jungle Julia (as Sydney Poitier)
Tracie Thoms ... Kim
Rose McGowan ... Pam
Jordan Ladd ... Shanna
Mary Elizabeth Winstead ... Lee
Quentin Tarantino ... Warren
Marcy Harriell ... Marcy
Eli Roth ... Dov
Omar Doom ... Nate
Michael Bacall ... Omar
Monica Staggs ... Lanna Frank

Plot:
Stuntman Mike is a former Hollywood stunt race car driver who targets and kills women with his "death-proof" stunt car. In Act I, Mike surfaces in Austin, Texas to target a group of women whom he knows; Jungle Julia an outgoing, dope-smoking, radio DJ/fashion model meeting her old school friends for a night on the town whom are sentimental model Arlene, and local bad-girl Shanna, as well as bar-nut hippie Pam who tries to make Mike notice her, unaware of his sociopath and misogynist tendencies. In Act II, Stuntman Mike surfaces in Tennessee where he randomly picks another another group of women to stalk all of whom work in the motion picture business; Abernathy is a make-up girl and stand-in wanting a change of pace in her life. Lee is a naive B-movie actress. Kim is a tough-minded stunt woman always wanting action. And Zoe is a fellow stunt woman from New Zealand visiting her friends. However, the second set of girls proves more though to get, and because of a combination of bad luck and Stuntman Mike's carelessness, the girls decide to turn the tables on their tormentor for revenge of their own... IMDB

Review:
This movie could be about 30 minutes long.

It is extremely boring.
The only thing that is worth watching in this movie was the ending. Skip in the movie all the way until the end, when they go to look at the car. At that point, the movie is hilarious! But that is only about 30 minutes of the almost 2 hours of film.

The actresses are boring and stale, again until the last 30 minutes.

The rest of the movie is pointless, boring dialog that is unlike Tarantino.
The overacting by Kurt Russell at the end is priceless!
And the trick the girls play on their friend when they take the car, is also hilarious. But those 2 things are seriously the best things in the movie. Everything else is lame, pointless, and boring.

I was expecting a lot more, especially after Planet Terror (both parts of the Grindhouse double feature).

Don't watch this one, and definitely don't pay for it! Watch Planet Terror instead!

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