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Reviews Counted:185
Fresh:152
Rotten:33
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Grindhouse delivers exhilarating exploitation fare with wit and panache, improving upon its source material with feral intelligence.
Theatrical Release:Apr 6, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $24,928,753
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... [More]
Starring: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Marley Shelton, Kurt Russell
Director: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth
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.
Each film would have fared better as a 15-minute short.
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.
Top CriticThe numbness of sitting through nearly two hours of dreck isn't all that kills the momentum going in to Death Proof.
A long, blood-splattered stunt of a movie, Grindhouse, may be something only critics and film nerds can love.
A museum installation of crap culture artifacts that is both entirely too much and not nearly enough. The tiresome, self-referential Tarantino has become trapped in his own Jack Rabbit Slim's.
Packaging a three-hour-plus program may be daring, but pairing a long running time with junk-food cinema is enough to make you sick.
Rodriguez understood the project the better of the two directors and made the more appropriate of the two films. Tarantino appears to have gotten into making his film and then forgot what he was supposed to be doing.
Robert Rodriguez bakes a load of stale if bloody pastry called Planet Terror, while Quentin Tarantino fries up a tasty mess of fun with Death Proof.
Both films are wildly entertaining, as long as you're ready for the high-intensity gore factor, the sex (mostly talk) and the violence.
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.
Top CriticA mixed-bag of a popcorn flick where more proves to be less.
Top CriticIf it stops feeling like entertainment, then it must be art.
Top CriticTarantino must get a kick hearing his fantasies come out of these mouths. But for the first time here, it seems more than a little creepy.
Top CriticTarantino and Rodriguez assume that we’ll relish the movie’s violence or shrug it off as play, as they do, but not everyone in the audience will want his enjoyment of it taken for granted that way.
Top CriticA grueling thing to endure.
The dragging, plodding pace and creative misfire of Tarantino's movie is enough to put a big damper on the sum total of the Rodriguez/Tarantino double feature experiment.
A waste of time.
An epic exercise in cultural necrophilia.
Rodriguez, to a fault, delivers a zombie movie that lazily apes the exploitation handbook, while Tarantino, also to a fault, gives us a gabby picture that is about as un-grindhouse as you can get and still feature a killer stuntman.
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