Death Proof

UK Release Date: 21st September 2007

Two separate sets of voluptuous women are stalked at different times by a scarred stuntman who uses his "death proof" cars to execute his murderous plans (www.imdb.com).

Director: Quentin Tarantino (Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol, 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2)

Starring: Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Rose McGowan, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Now Death Proof is technically Tarantino's 6th feature length, though it's labelled his fifth due to Kill Bill being originally made as one unit. His 2007 excursion is one of two parts also. This time it pays tribute to Grindhouse Cinema (exploitation films), alongside Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror. They overlap in the smallest of ways, and hold many easter eggs to films in their catalogues, the most obvious being Kill Bill. Death Proof follows two sets of girls who're shadowed by a grizzly, despicable stuntman that drives a 1970 Chevy Nova (for the first half of the movie) and a 1969 Dodge Charger (the second half of the movie). One set of girls fair better than the other, trading a conventional lacklustre damsel act for femme fatale's, or what I like to call 'male butt-kicking heroes'. The women are the focal point, with their lively personalities and feisty temperaments, leaving room for the one man. Tarantino supplies the gaff only he can do so well. The final act of each tale without a doubt syphons Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill. Death Proof is for the anarchistic, and say no to the traditional ways of cinema going.

3.5/5