Quentin Tarantino is perhaps one of the greatest modern film makers.
His unique combination of quirky humour, odd ball characters, scatter brain storytelling and ultra bloody violence make for some of the most original movies in contemporary cinema.
Death Proof is no different from this and stays true to the Tarantino formula. Kurt Russell plays Stuntman Mike and stalks young loose women around bars. He has a crazed fetish for destruction and feeds it by thrashing his stunt car, called Death Proof, into his victims' cars.
It is brutal, funny and Kurt Russell is manically brilliant. This is the best we have seen from Russell in a long time and hopefully it will not be the last.
Like all Tarantino movies there is a lot of dialogue between the characters. These scenes are very reminiscent of Reservoir Dogs and even Pulp Fiction. The conversations bash movie pop culture and contend that cinema sub cultures are where the real talent and brilliance is: a point that Tarantino likes to make in all his movies
The stunts in this film are pulled off to perfection. The car chase sequence at the film’s climax is one of the greatest in recent memory. There’s little or no CGI in this movie, it’s as Stuntman Mike says, “the all or nothing days” of pre computer cinema.
For some however this movie will drag in as there is a lot of talking, even for a Tarantino movie.
Whilst not the best of Tarantino’s movies, it certainly isn’t the worst.
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