Grindhouse: A Wildly Uneven Night

3rd Pro-Rodriguez review.

Grindhouse - Quentin Tarantino - Robert Rodriguez - Death Proof - Planet Terror - Movie Review

Robert Rodriguez' Planet Terror, an over-the-top zombie shocker, is great trashy fun that lives up to the spirit of its title. Rose McGowan plays a Texas go-go dancer who faces an onslaught of bioweapons zombies at a barbecue joint. Freddy Rodriguez and Marley Shelton provide lively backup. Planet Terror is shoddily shot and edited, frames are missing, and the stock looks like it's been through a hundred drive-ins already.

After the hilariously campy halftime trailers by Eli Roth, Edgar Wright, and Rob Zombie ("Werewolf Women of the SS!"), the fun comes to a thudding halt. Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof attempts an odd deconstruction of the streamlined seventies car chase film (Vanishing Point is quoted again and again) and fails miserably. Like Steven Soderbergh's recent crack at resurrecting the international noir with The Good German, Death Proof is misguided and awkward.

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