Death Proof Review

Welcome to the entertainment section of the Outside Agitator. This week's review is on "Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof". For those of you who have followed Tarantino's career, this film hits the nail on the head dead on! It is everything fans have come to expect; including clever dialogue, interesting situations, and James Dean cool characters that look really good smoking cancer sticks. The film flows well around the character Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) who drives around in his 1970s style car with a skull on the hood. His mission is to prey on some very sexy young chicks because he has nothing better to do. He's out for blood and his weapon is speed. This appears to be the perfect role for Russell if you are at all a fan of "Escape from New York". He plays the character well and with style. His female victims are equally as entertaining. Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Zoe Bell and Jordan Ladd are some of the road rage cuties you can expect to see. If you are a horror fan this film may not necessarily be for you. It contains aspect of horror, but it is not a Texas Chainsaw Massacre style bloodbath. In all sincerity this is its biggest strength. Our movie theaters have been overrun with stupid female victims that don't fight back and killers that have no face, or personality. Death proof has the opposite. The victims are smarter and more interesting than most and the killer has a weapon that we don't normally see in modern horror. A fast death demon of a car is much more interesting than a knife, or a gun. Add the charm of the killer and you have the most fun you will have all year.

Death Proof was originally part of a double feature know as "Grindhouse" which also featured Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror and farce trailers in between viewings. I will not disagree that this is the coolest way to experience both of these films, but I do think they work well as individual DVD releases. This is simply business. It was either do it now or in theaters which would have taken away from the experience. The tragedy is not they are separate DVDs, but that it didn't make as much in theaters as expected. "Grindhouse" was the most fun I had at the theater all year. Even though they will likely release the theatrical versions later, I am happy to buy them now. I think fan interest will make them very successful cult classics in the long run.

Death Proof DVD Features

Limited Time $5 off coupon for Planet Terror

Disc 1

- Death Proof: Extended and Unrated Version

- Trailers and Poster Gallery

Disc 2

- Stunts On Wheels: The Legendary Drivers of Death Proof

- Kurt Russell As Stuntman Mike- Finding Quentin's Gals

- The Guys of Death Proof

- Introducing Zoe Bell

- Quentin's Greatest Collaborator: Editor Sally Menke

- Double Dare Trailer