Cephyros

Rating this trash higher than 1 would be wrong, because it's simply not a real movie. It's roughly 2 hours of extremely boring dialogue delivered by uninteresting characters, and two mildly entertaining car chases. It doesn't go anywhere. There is nothing funny, witty, scary or exciting about it, nor does it convey or evoke any other feelings. Digitally making the first half of the film look aged, deliberately inserting bad audio-cuts and including a 5-minute black and white sequence for no reason whatsoever doesn't help either (yeah, we get it, it's supposed to look like a cheap 70s flick-- it doesn't). Unlike some of the B-movies it tries to imitate, Death Proof isn't even so bad it's funny. Unless the intention of this film is to put the audience to sleep, it fails horribly. Obviously Tarantino has lost it. He should have quit while he was ahead; his glory days of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are long gone.

If this laughably amateurish waste of celluloid was by anyone but Tarantino, it surely would have an overall IMDb-rating of no more than 2/10 and quite possibly rank among the bottom 100 worst movies.

All the dark atmosphere and stylish music, the way Blade was portrayed, the cool villain- in short all that was cool and fun in the first movie is sadly missing from this one. The lack of character-development and story is substituted with lots of unnecessary gore and continuous action (but none of the fight-scenes are anywhere near as good as in first one!!). What a waste of time and money.

All those positive reviews here can mean only two things: Either the makers of Blade II are abusing IMDB to promote this poor sequel, or after years of being fed mass-produced Hollywood-crap the majority of reviewers here have completely lost their sense of taste.