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Death Proof
- Review Date: October 1, 2007
- NR
- Genre: Action/Adventure
- 2007
Common Sense Media says
Tarantino's very bloody half of Grindhouse.
Parents say
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Kids say
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this movie celebrates and partially recreates brutal sex-and-action movies that played in bad-neighborhood theaters of the 1960s and '70s. There is a lot of swearing, bloody violence, much talk of sex (none shown, though), vicious and self-destructive behavior, and revenge.
What's the story?
In Austin, Texas, radio DJ Jungle Julie (Sydney Poitier) meets with visiting friends at roadhouse, before they carpool for a girls'-only weekend at one of their father's cabins, with marijuana and maybe a few boys on the agenda. Also in the roadhouse is Mike (Kurt Russell), who is secretly stalking Jungle Julie and her posse. On the road he strikes, in his "death-proof" black 1970s stunt car. Later, Mike tries to pull off a similar crime against a group of spunky young ladies in Tennessee, but the intended victims here are also movie stuntwomen, and they aren't such easy prey.
Is it any good?
DEATH PROOF originally was Quentin Tarantino's half of Grindhouse, a joint effort with Robert Rodriguez to recreate a double-bill of shabby exploitation movies of bygone days. After it flopped at the box office, Death Proof was released by itself to theaters overseas and on video in the U.S. Without the framing gimmick, it's the equivalent of a punchline with no setup. There is plenty of Tarantino's profanity-jammed, witty/lewd/movie-reference-quoting dialogue plus a slam-bang car-chase action finale, but in the end the film's only real achievement (aside from unnerving any parents who catch their kids watching this) is halfway duplicating the look and feel of an old grindhouse potboiler.
A lot of viewers might find it a long haul to get to the action. Others might find the filth-talking girls, psychotic Mike, and a few other low-life guys around the periphery to be most unappealing people to spend time with. And maybe just a few viewers, who groove to the same beat Tarantino does, will think this movie is the best thing ever. Characters inhabit a world of violence, sex, and obscure-movie quotes and entertainment trivia.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about why Quentin Tarantino made this film, and what would be the appeal for anyone outside of his viewing-party circle. Lots of today's cutting-edge moviemakers seem fascinated by trashy exploitation pictures from their childhood, and some commentators claim those down-and-dirty films, ignored or condemned at the time by the mainstream, exhibited more creativity, energy, and daring than conventional Hollywood productions. Do you believe that? Where are the good ideas hiding today, then?
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good but you have to try to stay awake at parts
good movie but some parts of the movie where boring especially the scene just chat for twenty minutes about nothing
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lots of talking scenes, but i loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Very good!
Excelent black comedy, with some bloody parts that make it funny.
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Not as violent as I expected, but still not for kids.
While certainly not appropriate for kids, this movie wasn't as violent as I was expecting it to be considering it's Tarantino. Kurt Russel was fantastic as the bad guy, and the girls were cool and kicked butt. A fun not-too violent horror movie if you're 15+.
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Death Proof
Not exactly wholesome family entertainment, but it isn't as bad as CSM makes it out to be, either. Sure, there's F-words galore, and some bursts of extreme violence, but I think most teens could handle it.
All in all, I loved this film. It's probably only for Quentin Tarantino fans, since many will probably become bored by the multiple scenes of dialogue. But I was very entertained by the dialogue, and the last 20 minutes are exhilarating. Death Proof has, easily, the best car chase I've ever seen in a movie. The ending will make you want to stand up and cheer. This movie was just alot of fun! I loved it.
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Fun car chase movie is boring at times.
This is a very fun movie, granted it is slow, but it dose do a good job of the car chase genra but it has many issues that it could have been without:
1. Violence is quick but brutal and bloody, only 5 people die in the movie, but their deaths are grusom and very bloody, A 20 minute car chase leads to mike breaking his right arm, being punched repeatedly and kicked in the head.
2. The sex is all talk, but there is a ton, a girl gives mike a clothed lap dance.
3. The F word is constant thruout the movie and most every oter swear word gets utterd more than once.
4. The first group of girls smoke weed, drinknig in a bar.
So overal this is a fun movie for mature teens 13 and up
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Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof all right for mature teens
The movie Death Proof is not that bad. It has a lot of sexual dialouge wich is very detailed. the F word is constant throughout the movie. it also has some other terrible languge. The only violence in this film is 2 car carshes and one brutal and graphic beating at the end of the movie. This was a 1 hour and 53 minute waste of my time. Overall it was a crappy movie that was not entertaining. See Planet Terror for entertainment, it was a much more enjoyable film than Death Proof.
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| Studio: | Dimension |
| Director: | Quentin Tarantino |
| Cast: | Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure |
| Run time: | 113 minutes |
| Theatrical release date: | May 31, 2007 |
| DVD release date: | September 16, 2007 |
| MPAA rating: | NR |
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