Dimension Films (The Weinstein Company)Part two of the double feature has Kurt Russell as a stuntman stalking a group of women in Quentin Tarantino’s high-octane thriller “Death Proof.”
But before the pleasure of seeing the second movie in “Grindhouse,” the filmmakers included three fake trailers to give the audience the feel of watching a drive-in movie.
Directors Edgar Wright, Eli Roth and Rob Zombie each contributed by making their own trailers of “Don’t,” “Thanksgiving” and “Werewolf Women of the S.S.,” respectively.
Now, let’s get back to the movie.
“Death Proof” starts off great with a group of women on their way to a bar. As they spend the night drinking and partying, they notice an intriguing man sitting at the bar, who they later realize is a washed-up stuntman.
Little do they know how dangerous the stuntman is.
However, the movie starts to die off in the middle with a lot of dialogue and no action. Kurt Russell’s character of Stuntman Mike disappears for a good portion of the movie, and the film really doesn’t start to pick up until he returns for the climactic ending.
“Death Proof” is the weaker film of the two; however, it is still very enjoyable for any Tarantino fan.
Tarantino is in full force. He went to extreme lengths to make his film seem as aged as possible in order to give the movie the same look as the ’70s style action films he grew up watching.
Both filmmakers scratched the prints of the film to make it look weathered, as if the viewer was watching it on a crappy drive-in projector.
Both films run close to 90 minutes. Including the trailers, “Grindhouse” runs in at three hours and 11 minutes.
Tarantino’s witty dialogue, his obsession with feet and his intense car chases are all there to make the viewer feel apart of the cinema.
“Grindhouse” is the most fun at the theaters since aliens blew up the White House in “Independence Day.”
