Tarantino's roadkill-movie sends two groups of young and attractive women a few weeks after each other on a fatal cross-course with a lunatic killer (Kurt Russel), a maniac whose lethal motivation remains as unexplained as that of the truck-driver in Spielberg's "Duel".
Set in the early 80s, the film salutes the "Cannonball-Fever" movies or H.B. Halicki-films such as "The Junkman". Since I didn't like "Planet Terror" so much, I made a mental note and would suggest, that this one would perfectly and rather match in a 'double-feature' with the excellent "No Country For Old Men", which is also set in that time.
There ain't much plot to tell (and spoilers are therefore practically impossible) but the nevertheless movie is even so richer and cooler than many others with a more complex story-structure.
We follow a few beautiful women on their weekly tour to their favorite joint where they first meet their hangman – the 'Unknown Stuntman' "Mike". Then -at dusk- the tour goes on to the open interstate where Mike waits in ambush and kills them in a kamikaze frontal crash, sacrifying his car and putting even his own life at stack just for the killthrill.
Months later ... Mike is on the road. Again. Some girls are on their weekly tour. Again. They meet. Again. On the open county-roads the next duel begins. But these ain't no average girls...
The major part of the film is that following race-off and as you see it has in about the same amount of plot as the terrific 'Cardigans' - videoclip "My favorite game".
Hilarious is the scene where Mike finally mourns over his broken arm – the entire audience in my theater laughed their asses of. That, and his brief smile right into the camera before made Mike not the most unsympathetic fella to us. But we rooted for the girls and his fate anyway.
QT has a minor part in the movie, mainly playing himself and the usual State Trooper/Sheriff shows up too so the movie is regularly embedded into the QT-canon.
The rest is: cool cars, cool chicks, cool music, cool carchase with nice crashes. That'll do for me.
Set in the early 80s, the film salutes the "Cannonball-Fever" movies or H.B. Halicki-films such as "The Junkman". Since I didn't like "Planet Terror" so much, I made a mental note and would suggest, that this one would perfectly and rather match in a 'double-feature' with the excellent "No Country For Old Men", which is also set in that time.
There ain't much plot to tell (and spoilers are therefore practically impossible) but the nevertheless movie is even so richer and cooler than many others with a more complex story-structure.
We follow a few beautiful women on their weekly tour to their favorite joint where they first meet their hangman – the 'Unknown Stuntman' "Mike". Then -at dusk- the tour goes on to the open interstate where Mike waits in ambush and kills them in a kamikaze frontal crash, sacrifying his car and putting even his own life at stack just for the killthrill.
Months later ... Mike is on the road. Again. Some girls are on their weekly tour. Again. They meet. Again. On the open county-roads the next duel begins. But these ain't no average girls...
The major part of the film is that following race-off and as you see it has in about the same amount of plot as the terrific 'Cardigans' - videoclip "My favorite game".
Hilarious is the scene where Mike finally mourns over his broken arm – the entire audience in my theater laughed their asses of. That, and his brief smile right into the camera before made Mike not the most unsympathetic fella to us. But we rooted for the girls and his fate anyway.
QT has a minor part in the movie, mainly playing himself and the usual State Trooper/Sheriff shows up too so the movie is regularly embedded into the QT-canon.
The rest is: cool cars, cool chicks, cool music, cool carchase with nice crashes. That'll do for me.