Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 191
Fresh: 158 | Rotten: 33
Grindhouse delivers exhilarating exploitation fare with wit and panache, improving upon its source material with feral intelligence.
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 9
Grindhouse delivers exhilarating exploitation fare with wit and panache, improving upon its source material with feral intelligence.
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Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino and Sin City director Robert Rodriguez join forces to offer a cinematic tribute to the blood-soaked exploitation epics of yesteryear with this hyper-violent coupling of two full-length features punctuated by a collection of outrageous trailers. The first segment, directed by Rodriguez and entitled Planet Terror, details the violent struggle between a ravenous army of zombie-like humanoids who have taken control of the planet and the remaining survivors who
R, 3 hr. 12 min.
Apr 6, 2007 Wide
$24.9M
The Weinstein Co./Dimension
All Critics (196) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (158) | Rotten (33) | DVD (3)
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.
The whole thing runs a bit over three hours, goes by swiftly, contains countless film references and includes hilarious fake trailers.
A rowdy jolt of quasi-nostalgic escapism.
A weaponized adrenaline rush.
RR and QT do an excellent job of simulating the content of grindhouse offerings, but they don't simulate the experience or the giddy kick.
Go, I say, and enjoy.
A paean to the exploitation films of the 70s, built more for titillation than story-telling, Grindhouse - especially the Rodriguez sequence - is nearly impossibly silly, not necessarily a bad thing, and is certainly not for everyone.
Grindhouse is a great experience, packed with fun, thrills, chills and gore galore.
Delivers all the trashy, seat-squirming, eye-covering moments your fiercely racing heart craves. Forget about "guilty pleasures." Call it a pleasure, and leave it at that.
Half smirk, half transcendence
This is a movie theater experience. It needs to be seen at night, with a big screen and lots of friends.
As amusing as the concept is, the actual result is a considerable disappointment - a high-tech forgery that lacks the disreputable charm of its models, which were made without the self-conscious affectation on display here.
Hopefully Rodriguez and Tarantino will make more of these.
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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Has Tarantino ever made a singularly authentic, sincere, innovative frame of film in his entire life?
The trailers for grindhouse movies were always better than the films themselves. Sadly, the same is true of Grindhouse.
Each film would have fared better as a 15-minute short.
It is a movie about watching itself, and that is both solipsistic and pure genius.
[In Death Proof, Tarantino] gleefully subverts the genre to keep us thoroughly entertained.
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