an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Grindhouse: Planet Terror (2007): Dir: Robert Rodriguez / Cast: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Jeff Fahey: First of stylized double drive-in style feature regards a deadly gas that turns humanity into zombies. Robert Rodriguez is creative but the plot eventually becomes one graphic scene of violence after another. Rose McGowan delivers a great performance as a go-go dancer whose leg is devoured by zombies and replaced with a machine gun. The methods in which this weapon is used are a low point in over the top violence. Freddy Rodriguez plays her fugitive ex-boyfriend who takes several risks and uses his street smarts to ward off zombies. Josh Brolin plays a cynical doctor who abuses his bi-sexual wife when he learns that she has been involved with another woman. Marley Shelton plays his wife whose hands become lifeless at a pivotal moment. She must survive using other methods that do not regard the use of her hands. Jeff Fahey plays head chef at a fancy little place called The Bone Shack, which is the perfect title for an eatery in a film like this. Between the two Grindhouse films I prefer the Quentin Tarantino version Deathproof, which is broader and more amusing. Both film suit the drive-in market but from two very different sub-genres. With all the graphic violence this film nearly becomes a different type of terror. Score: 5 / 10

I enjoy this movie. It's an interesting take on the zombie apocalypse theme that is so popular over the last decade. I still hate the terrible quality, but as I said in my Grindhouse: Death Proof review, it's made the be like that. I think that annoys me more than the actual bad quality.This movie about a zombie apocalypse. After an experimental bio-weapon is accidentally, sort of purpose, released, it turns thousands of people into zombie-like creatures. They'll eat anyone. A small group of people survive the initial attacks and somehow end up in the same place. They then have to work together to stay alive. Overall, I give this movie an 8 out of 10, which in my ratings book is: Awesome.

First let me explain that I am a huge fan of Zombie Apocalypse type films and television, which one could easily classify in the same genre of science fiction which I am also a huge fan of. And it has always been up for debate amongst fans and critics of the genre how far you can bend the logic where logic does not exist rule without breaking it.This movie defies almost ALL logic. I understand it's meant to be a gore-fest shock thriller, and I can say Resident Evil would be classified as the same type film and I enjoyed any film out of that series twice as much as this junk, and I would put the best resident evil at about a 5.6/10. I know a lot of you guys out there reading this are shaking your heads thinking that I don't "get it". I'm not a film critic so I don't know the terminology but I understand the way Quentin Tarantino makes his films in a sort of comic-bookie fashion like this seems to duplicate, and I loved most of his stuff, kill bill, true romance, basterds, django. This does a good job of coming off as that type of film, even with the old grainy film markings and cut reel in sex scene.This just goes so far beyond logic that I couldn't simply ignore it and it ruined the entire experience for me. The toxin is airborne and most certainly extremely contagious, when we see Wray first enter the hospital to get Cherry he avoids the blood splatter, later on they are just running over zombies in trucks getting splashed in blood, were they immune somewhere along the line? how did the girl not get infected after losing her leg? the simple explanation by the wacko doctor just simply says oh some people are immune...OK.Then the LEG GUN, HOW DOES SHE FIRE THE AMMO AND RELOAD MAGAZINES? and at the end when it becomes a FUC**nig MINNIGUN where do the bullets come from? her tail? she goes soaring at least 30 feet in the air towards the end and pops off 100 rounds in every direction from what appears to be a 30 round mag in an m-16, I wasn't paying that close attention, then I counted at least 3 rocket blasts from her, one minute shes a stripper next minute shes a trained assassin that defies gravity and can somehow telepathically fire a gun from her leg. Hell I would have even settled for a string or something she pulled on connected to the trigger.I could list a dozen more points but i'm not wasting another minute of my life thinking about this, plus you guys already have your own high or low opinions anyway without me pointing out more of the obvious. I've never written a review and thought i'd be in for a treat with some of the actors and the 7+ rating and loving Zombie flicks, but wow what a disappointment. I honestly can not think of a worse movie at the moment. I think I saw something called tank girl late night SyFy channel that was pretty close to being this bad, but i'd rather watch that. HOW could you give this anything above a 4/10!!!!!!!?? -rant over

Planet Terror is memorable only because it appeared along Tarantino's Death Proof in a film feature Grindhouse. And i guess that no one apart from trash-horror aficionados would have heard about it hadn't it been the cast and more famous director involved in the double feature.Planet Terror offers a story or a rather a "story" typical for any similar feature film. There are monsters, someone is running away from them, then there was a lot of fighting and gore. And even this is too much of an explanation. You either like such movies or you don't.There are some known names in the cast and Tarantino got some screen time to satisfy his ego-tripping.