Death Proof
'Death Proof' is Tarantino's big expensive homage to 70s, down and dirty exploitation flicks... or as Variety put it, exploitation culture "bites, kicks, slugs, blasts, smashes and cusses its way back to life". The girl power story follows Kurt Russell as a veteran stuntman and psycho Mike, who stalks and kills beautiful women with his car.
- Director:
- Quentin Tarantino ('Kill Bill', 'Jackie Brown', 'Pulp Fiction')
- Writer:
- Quentin Tarantino
- Cast:
- Kurt RussellRosario DawsonVanessa FerlitoJordan LaddRose McGowanZoe BellQuentin Tarantino
Reviews & comments
New Zealand Herald
pressDeath Proof is certainly entertaining, but it's also baffling and will have you wondering what the point of it all is.
Newshub
pressBut Coppola sees more in Marie than an Old World Paris Hilton. By tossing in American slang, rock music (New Order and Bow Wow Wow) and eclectic acting styles, she's crashing through the barriers of centuries and stuffy Hollywood biopics to give us a palpable sense of Marie moving through the temptations of flesh and spirit before history boxed her in. With lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It's a pleasure...
Lumiere Reader
pressSimilarly at odds with the exploitation double-bill, Death Proof defiantly – even unconsciously – stands alone, and however self-aggrandising, contains some smashing moments, builds to a considerable fck yeah, and works even better on its own terms...
Empire Magazine
pressSeriously entertaining American filmmaking and definitely not the half-serious pastiche it could easily have been. No seatbelt, no airbag, no nuthin’ — just Tarantino driving wildly under the influence...
Dominion Post
pressTarantino treats his film set like a toy box, and his movies are still a guilty pleasure to watch. Nice one...
Christchurch Press
pressSure, it's full of injokes, self-indulgent references (why would two modern girls love Vanishing Point?) and self-referential indulgences (Red Apple cigarettes and Earl McGraw turn up) and Tarantino-isms abound (listen for familiar ringtones, and irrelevant, meandering conversations), but it's a hell of a lot of fun and strangely empowering.
While attempting to replicate the gloriously bad movies of his youth, Tarantino couldn't help himself. He went and made a good film...
BBC
pressThe shift between stories is as sudden as the ending - no doubt in tribute to Tarantino's beloved cheap "grindhouse" features, but that doesn't make it any easier to swallow. There's plenty of fun to be had with Death Proof, but its imitation of a defunct, low-budget style of movie-making is perhaps too accurate when it comes to the genre's flaws...
Oh i had a laugh at this one. Clever, action packed, funny and with stunts, kiwis and ass kickin' ladies, what more could you want. While playing about with the grindhuse genre Tarantino has hit the cinematic nail on the head.
not that that is bad. Great soundtrack and action sequences. Zoe Bell is fantastic especially in the Kiwi/Aussie bit at the bar and her on camera stunts. First half slightly flat but the second half much better. Some bits felt like a female Reservoir Dogs which made it very watchable all round
And kicking! You just gotta love this. The movie formula turned on its arse, plotless and devoted to mesmerising scenes and quirky characters that fill the screen and have you riveted so that you don't care about the lack of plot, I mean thats the whole point, who needs a plot when theres so much fun to be had???
Good, but Tarantino has lost his touch. He's no longer cool it's official. The dialogue fell flat alot of the time, and none of it was funny at all. The films first half is about one group of girls, the second about another... first group interesting, second group not so interesting. Having said that, the action scenes are awesome. Zoe Bell on the car...
New Zealand Herald
pressDeath Proof is certainly entertaining, but it's also baffling and will have you wondering what the point of it all is.
Newshub
pressBut Coppola sees more in Marie than an Old World Paris Hilton. By tossing in American slang, rock music (New Order and Bow Wow Wow) and eclectic acting styles, she's crashing through the barriers of centuries and stuffy Hollywood biopics to give us a palpable sense of Marie moving through the temptations of flesh and spirit before history boxed her in. With lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It's a pleasure...
Lumiere Reader
pressSimilarly at odds with the exploitation double-bill, Death Proof defiantly – even unconsciously – stands alone, and however self-aggrandising, contains some smashing moments, builds to a considerable fck yeah, and works even better on its own terms...
Empire Magazine
pressSeriously entertaining American filmmaking and definitely not the half-serious pastiche it could easily have been. No seatbelt, no airbag, no nuthin’ — just Tarantino driving wildly under the influence...
Dominion Post
pressTarantino treats his film set like a toy box, and his movies are still a guilty pleasure to watch. Nice one...
Christchurch Press
pressSure, it's full of injokes, self-indulgent references (why would two modern girls love Vanishing Point?) and self-referential indulgences (Red Apple cigarettes and Earl McGraw turn up) and Tarantino-isms abound (listen for familiar ringtones, and irrelevant, meandering conversations), but it's a hell of a lot of fun and strangely empowering.
While attempting to replicate the gloriously bad movies of his youth, Tarantino couldn't help himself. He went and made a good film...
BBC
pressThe shift between stories is as sudden as the ending - no doubt in tribute to Tarantino's beloved cheap "grindhouse" features, but that doesn't make it any easier to swallow. There's plenty of fun to be had with Death Proof, but its imitation of a defunct, low-budget style of movie-making is perhaps too accurate when it comes to the genre's flaws...
Oh i had a laugh at this one. Clever, action packed, funny and with stunts, kiwis and ass kickin' ladies, what more could you want. While playing about with the grindhuse genre Tarantino has hit the cinematic nail on the head.
not that that is bad. Great soundtrack and action sequences. Zoe Bell is fantastic especially in the Kiwi/Aussie bit at the bar and her on camera stunts. First half slightly flat but the second half much better. Some bits felt like a female Reservoir Dogs which made it very watchable all round
And kicking! You just gotta love this. The movie formula turned on its arse, plotless and devoted to mesmerising scenes and quirky characters that fill the screen and have you riveted so that you don't care about the lack of plot, I mean thats the whole point, who needs a plot when theres so much fun to be had???
Good, but Tarantino has lost his touch. He's no longer cool it's official. The dialogue fell flat alot of the time, and none of it was funny at all. The films first half is about one group of girls, the second about another... first group interesting, second group not so interesting. Having said that, the action scenes are awesome. Zoe Bell on the car...
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