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Grindhouse Presents: Death Proof

2007 1h 54m Mystery & Thriller Action Horror List
63% Tomatometer 43 Reviews 71% Popcornmeter 250,000+ Ratings
Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) is a professional body double who likes to take unsuspecting women for deadly drives in his free time. He has doctored his car for maximum impact; when Mike purposely causes wrecks, the bodies pile up while he walks away with barely a scratch. The insane Mike may be in over his head, though, when he targets a tough group of female friends, including real-life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who served as Uma Thurman's double in "Kill Bill"), who plays herself.
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Death Proof may feel somewhat minor in the context of Tarantino's larger filmography, but on its own merits, it packs just enough of a wallop to deliver sufficiently high-octane grindhouse goods.

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Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald Death Proof is superbly made. There's a terrible tension watching these beautiful and spirited young women getting too close to the flame, followed by enormous relief when the mood changes in the second story. Rated: 3.5/4 Nov 17, 2007 Full Review Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard The dialogue with which Tarantino is usually adept is disastrously clunky, the filmmaking largely without flair and even the apeing of the smears and scratches of the schlock originals seems ridiculous. Rated: 1/5 Sep 21, 2007 Full Review Anthony Quinn Independent (UK) With its scratchy print, jerky editing and retro title sequence, Quentin Tarantino's fifth film bends over backwards to establish its Seventies sexploitation-flick credentials. Rated: 3/5 Sep 21, 2007 Full Review John Brhel Vague Visages Death Proof is too singularly grindhouse, but it works as a fun, trashy flick, and a cool female empowerment story. Jun 5, 2023 Full Review Emiliano Basile EscribiendoCine What's seemingly irrelevant acquires interest in Tarantino's troubled waters, dilating time to hit you at the right moment. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 8/10 Jan 18, 2023 Full Review Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies Despite it’s throwback cinema bells and whistles, a pretty good first half, and a really fun Kurt Russell performance, the movie ends up losing steam, and the second half can’t maintain the spark of the first 45 minutes or so. Rated: 2/5 Aug 20, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member I’ve watched the film many times and continue to be delighted by its shameless sexuality in the first act that evolves into a revenge scene that’s both exciting and satisfying. It might not be for everyone, but I love it. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/06/24 Full Review Audience Member Got it! Here’s a more lightly edited version of your review: A true masterpiece! A movie with different levels and multi-dimensional themes, filled with subtle underlying hints. The film is without agenda yet provides a well-crafted story about two different groups of women: one drowned in alcohol and marijuana, and the other immersed in the adventures of autos and gears. One group is a victim of a predatory man, while the other takes revenge on this killer, even when a sheriff in Texas says he'd rather watch NASCAR than follow this man for nothing! It’s about what true feminism could be—empowering women based on skill and self-defense, not just sitting and crying about how they are mistreated! They are not butterflies! Tarantino wants to tell us, with the inappropriate cuts and old-style movie techniques, that it is a movie—relax and enjoy it—while also giving us a glimpse of how sexy reality could be. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/05/24 Full Review Justin T Tarantino fails again to make a film that I enjoy. I liked the idea of a Grindhouse movie but when I saw this deliberately bad movie I lost a little of my life. It was bad. They tried hard to make it bad and that is why some people will like it but it is why I hated it. There are bad films out there that are good and they are made with much less fuss. The special effects took over in one place to ruin the b-movie feel. The dialogue was painfully uninteresting and the finale was so terrible. ‘So bad it’s good’ turns out to be nothing but bad trying too hard to be good. Pretentious filmmaking that has not aged well. Stick to real Grindhouse b-movies, not these fake ones. If you can look past the fakeness this is mildly entertaining. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/12/24 Full Review Daniel B Una película que solo podría haber salido del imaginario del P*to Quentin Tarantino. Las mejores secuencias en autos que he visto en los 2000's. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/12/24 Full Review Sams K This one is horrendously underrated! Badass Kurt Russell, fast 70s cars, blood and hot chicks. A MUST SEE! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/24/24 Full Review Audience Member O filme possui diálogos bem discorridos, a conversação é algo bem presente aqui e isso é muito característico dos filmes do Tarantino. O filme é dividido em duas histórias bem parecidas, mas com rumos e finais diferentes, acho que o contraste que existe entre elas é o que deixa o filme ainda melhor, na segunda história nós realmente temos os nossos desejos atendidos, com as mulheres sendo sublimes nós final. Entretanto, eu achei esse filme muito arrastado, mesmo que no ato final nós somos recompensados com uma ótima sequência de ação, creio que isso não sustenta o filme a acho que as coisas demoram muito para acontecer. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/13/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) is a professional body double who likes to take unsuspecting women for deadly drives in his free time. He has doctored his car for maximum impact; when Mike purposely causes wrecks, the bodies pile up while he walks away with barely a scratch. The insane Mike may be in over his head, though, when he targets a tough group of female friends, including real-life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who served as Uma Thurman's double in "Kill Bill"), who plays herself.
Director
Quentin Tarantino
Producer
Elizabeth Avellan, Robert Rodriguez, Erica Steinberg, Quentin Tarantino
Screenwriter
Quentin Tarantino
Production Co
Dimension Films, The Weinstein Company, Troublemaker Studios
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 18, 2016
Runtime
1h 54m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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