Death Proof (DVD)

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Reviewed by Micky B - 8 August 2008

Director Quentin Tarantino's movies fall into roughly the same category as Wilbur Smith's books. We all check them out avidly; but whether we really understand them; or even remember them afterwards, is a moot point! And it's hard, now, to recall podgy middle-aged Kurt Russell as the child star he once was for Disney! He's very good here as "Stuntman Mike" though - an ageing movie double, who spends his after-hours life in bars, chatting up girls. It's his car - not him - that frightens them, they tell him. However, he more than meets his match when three tough chicks encounter him; for the second time round. The director's weird reminder that you could well be watching an at times very scratchy 16mm home movie, takes a bit of getting used to (it's rather clever though.) And one scene in which sepia suddenly pops into vivid colour, is most effective - as is the "surprise me" editing all the way through, that must have stirred up the serious film critics no end. Worth seeing.