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Grindhouse (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 181 Fresh: 147  Rotten:34 Average Rating: 7.4/10
 
Consensus: Delivers exhilarating exploitation fare with wit and panache. Grindhouse delivers exhilarating exploitation fare with wit and panache, improving upon its source material with feral intelligence. more
 
Runtime: 3 hrs 11 mins
Synopsis:
GRINDHOUSE is the cinematic equivalent of Bach and Beethoven adding their touch to a boy-band song. Master directors Quentin Tarantino (PULP FICTION) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) indulge their inner fanboys and team up for this homage to their favorite B-movies. Rodriguez's film,... [More]
GRINDHOUSE is the cinematic equivalent of Bach and Beethoven adding their touch to a boy-band song. Master directors Quentin Tarantino (PULP FICTION) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) indulge their inner fanboys and team up for this homage to their favorite B-movies. Rodriguez's film, PLANET TERROR, is an old-fashioned zombie film that's infused with enough gore and giggles to please even Peter Jackson (BAD TASTE). Rose McGowan (CHARMED) plays Cherry, a go-go dancer whose night is interrupted by a vicious zombie attack that leaves her missing a leg. Her ex-boyfriend, Wray (Freddy Rodriguez, SIX FEET UNDER), takes charge, fashioning her a new leg from a machine gun and killing zombies along the way. In Tarantino's DEATH PROOF, Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) stalks beautiful women with his deadly vintage car. When he picks a trio of tough girls (Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, and Zoe Bell), he learns they aren't such easy prey. This double feature plays as a three-hour ode to the horror and exploitation films that once played in grimy grindhouses across the country. As with any Tarantino film, there are plenty of nods to pop culture, and this is no exception. Fellow horror directors Rob Zombie, Eli Roth, and Edgar Wright contribute fake trailers that are squeezed in between the two features. Genre fans will love seeing familiar faces such as Tom Savini, Danny Trejo, and Bill Moseley. Clearly Tarantino and Rodriguez were film lovers before they were filmmakers, and their passion for the medium is infectious. Those who can stomach GRINDHOUSE's high level of guns, guts, and gore are in for a treat. The hyper-violent films aren't for everyone, but three hours of film has rarely been this much fun. [Less]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Starring: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Marley Shelton, Kurt Russell, Bruce Willis

Director: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez
Producer: Elizabeth Avellan, Gabrielle Roth, Erica Steinberg, Eli Roth, Philip Waley, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez

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[In Death Proof, Tarantino] gleefully subverts the genre to keep us thoroughly entertained.

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07/17/07 03:15 AM
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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A mediocre attempt to play with exploitation fire without getting burned. A pair of anti-septic fakes that miss the entire point of exploitation.

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04/18/08 07:35 AM
Brian Holcomb
Beyond Hollywood
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3-D Naughtiness! Perverts in Revolt! Sinful Dwarfs! And Even a Movie Review, Why Not?

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04/08/08 09:38 PM
Shane Burridge
rec.arts.movies.reviews
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This is a movie theater experience. It needs to be seen at night, with a big screen and lots of friends.

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03/03/08 10:40 AM
Jeff Bayer
Daily Herald (IL)
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The trailers for grindhouse movies were always better than the films themselves. Sadly, the same is true of Grindhouse.

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02/14/08 01:11 PM
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
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Each film would have fared better as a 15-minute short.

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01/04/08 01:23 AM
Bruce Bennett
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
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Grindhouse is both impressive and disappointing. From a technical and craft point of view it is first-rate; from its standing in the canon of the two directors, it is minor.

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10/26/07 11:50 AM
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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It is a movie about watching itself, and that is both solipsistic and pure genius.

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09/20/07 01:11 PM
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy
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07/14/07 05:02 AM
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound
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While I believe Tarantino to be a far greater artist when it comes to lining his cinematic and pop culture channelings with elements of profundity, Rodriguez is something of a master at to-the-point entertainment.

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07/03/07 04:48 AM
Rob Humanick
Projection Booth
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I almost feel bad for Robert Rodriguez, insofar as he has the misfortune to make a generally entertaining feature only to have it eclipsed by some sublime genre work by Quentin Tarantino.

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06/09/07 12:23 AM
Kevin Koehler
Pretentious Musings
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An intriguing package of faux trailers and senseless violence. Rarely is there a film that is so unquestionably enjoyable. Might give the '70s grind house flicks a good name.

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05/27/07 06:32 AM
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy
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The numbness of sitting through nearly two hours of dreck isn't all that kills the momentum going in to Death Proof.

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05/02/07 12:33 PM
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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Designed for those who want to rock on schlock.

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05/01/07 11:04 AM
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
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A long, blood-splattered stunt of a movie, Grindhouse, may be something only critics and film nerds can love.

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04/29/07 06:20 PM
John Wirt
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
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What amazed me however, was the unexpected feeling of feminine empowerment.

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04/28/07 04:32 AM
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
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What we're mainly getting is two big directors with expensive movies pretending they're niche directors with low funding. It's an act, but an enthralling one.

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04/25/07 10:14 AM
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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A unapologetically entertaining double feature that, despite its drawn out runtime and clunky moments, has an inventive take on an old and often cringe-worthy genre

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04/24/07 08:05 AM
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
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Raging at you harder than a televangelist on an overdose of Viagra, Grindhouse pulverizes the audience with a bombardment of hyper-violence, buxom babes, gnarly zombies, and enough exploitation to fill two movies.

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04/22/07 02:46 PM
John Larsen
Light Views
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Grindhouse is more fun than an army of toxic zombies, or a shapely severed leg hitting the highway with a thump.

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04/20/07 07:31 AM
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly
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