Grindhouse (2007)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 192
Fresh: 159 | 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: 44
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 10
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
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Freddy Rodriguez
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Marley Shelton
Dakota (Planet Terror) -
Jeff Fahey
JT (Planet Terror) -
Michael Biehn
Sheriff Hague (Planet T... -
Kurt Russell
Stunt Man Mike (Death P... -
Rosario Dawson
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Zoe Bell
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Vanessa Ferlito
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All Critics (198) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (159) | 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.
Shocking gore. Excessive violence. Gratuitous nudity. Exploding pustules. Hey, maybe your childhood was different than mine.
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.
Not just a movie but an event in its own right, Grindhouse is simply unmissable in its complete form.
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.
3-D Naughtiness! Perverts in Revolt! Sinful Dwarfs! And Even a Movie Review, Why Not?
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.
Audience Reviews for Grindhouse
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- Stunt Man Mike (Death Proof): [as he drives] Hey, Pam, remember when I said this car was death proof? Well, that wasn't a lie. This car is 100% death proof.
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- Stunt Man Mike (Death Proof): Ladies! That was fun! Adios! [gets shot]
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- Lee: I can't belive a fucking Circle A clerk carries Italian Vogue.
- Abernathy (Death Proof): It doesn't. It's his own personal copy. He'll let it go for 27 bucks.
- Lee: [scoffs] 27 bucks?
- Abernathy (Death Proof): What the fuck do you care? We're talking about fucking per diem here. We found an issue of Italian Vogue in Lebanon, Tennessee. We're lucky he's not asking for fuckin' Krugerrands. I'm getting it, and we're splitting it three ways.
- Lee: What? Me, you, and Kim?
- Abernathy (Death Proof): No. Kim doesn't give a shit about Italian Vogue. But Brandy will come in with us, and if she won't, Tyson, her assistant, will.
- Lee: Okay, but if anyone tears out any sheets that I want, you gotta make color Xerox copies of those pages, and I'm not talkin' fuckin' Kinko's here either. You take it to the art department and have them do it fucking right.
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- Lee: [to Zoë] I'm sorry, but what is 'home'? Is that Australia, right?
- Zoe (Death Proof): [seemingly offended] What do you mean by that, mate?
- Abernathy (Death Proof): Zoë's from New Zealand. And you never, I repeat, NEVER, call a Kiwi an Aussie.
- Kim (Death Proof): Not unless you wanna get your ass kicked.
- Lee: I'm so sorry, I really am.
- Zoe (Death Proof): [Abby, Zoë and Kim laugh] We're just taking the piss out of you, mate!
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- Zoe (Death Proof): So let's hear it ladies. Set romances, who's gettin' it off?
- Kim (Death Proof): That would be Lee and Toolbox.
- Zoe (Death Proof): Oh, Toolbox. Name sounds promising.
- Abernathy (Death Proof): He's a grip.
- Lee: What he is, is a pervert.
- Zoe (Death Proof): Wow, he just keeps sounding better and better. What's his perversion?
- Lee: He likes to watch me pee.
- Kim (Death Proof): Haha! Lee is sittin' on a toilet and Toolbox is watching her pee, P-I-S-S-I-N-G.
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- Zoe (Death Proof): So what's your story, Abernathy?
- Abernathy (Death Proof): I had a set crush on Cecil.
- Kim (Death Proof): Set crush? Please, you were his set wife.
- Abernathy (Death Proof): Were and had being the key words here.
- Kim (Death Proof): Bitch, you two are still into each other, and you know it.
- Abernathy (Death Proof): Oh yeah? If he's still into me, then why did he fuck Daryl Hannah's stand in? Yes, men are dogs, oh it's so funny, it's so funny!
- Kim (Death Proof): Oh, stop acting all hurt, your ass is just mad.
- Abernathy (Death Proof): Yeah, he's a stand in fucker.
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Top Critic
Quentin looks weird. Weirder.