Planet Terror

Planet Terror - What can you do without a girl with a machine gun leg? Planet Terror is a movie released in 2007, in a double feature with both «Death Proof» and «Planet Terror». The movie is directed by Robert Rodriguez. Planet Terror follows a small town in Texas, where a huge zombie outbreak comes along. Cherry (Rose McGowan) and Wrey (Freddy Rodriguez), her ex-lover try to survive in this hellhole. However the odds of survival becomes even lower when Cherry loses her leg due to a hungry zombie. This movie was released in a double feature, both movies follows the same 70s grindhouse style, although I feel this one pulls it off slightly better due to better grain, better camera shaking, and especially the missing reel scene is pretty funny. And what I noticed here was that this movie’s style wasn’t slowly transitioning, this was more «More chaotic = more ruined film roll». And the movie was just overall shot better, due to better lighting choices, color, set design and so on. And the acting here/dialogue was a step up from last movie, even if the dialogue was still utterly dogshit. Although most acting was decent-good, Quentin Tarantino can’t talk negative about other actors, when he is a terrible actor himself, and when he came onto this movie, I just got distracted. There isn’t really anything «bad» except the dialogue & Quentin’s acting. And the Mise-en-Scène isn’t great, but I assume this was done on purpose as the «grindhouse» style is all about parodying how poor the movies quality often was. Overall? I would recommend this more than the previous movie, but if you perfer something more emotional? Pick the last one. If you are an action junkie? Pick this one. I’ll watch both action and emotional as long as they are made well.