2.5/4  Rough Cut
Def the better of the Grindhouse films. When I first saw the trailer for this I thought it looked dumb as hell, but I decided to rent it anyways because I like Rodriguez. The fact that the main actress had a machine gun leg made the film. ... (read full)

2/4  Grindhouse: Planet Terror
The definition of a B-movie. If one wants gore, one will find it here. If one wants to watch a film with an apocalyptic feel to it, one can find it here. If one wants to have non-stereotypical characters and a captivating zombie film along... (read full)

3.5/4  blood, gore and a leg gun is so cool
Let the guns do the talking, this must be the theme Robert Rodriguez was thinking when he made his best movie to date. There's really something between the combination of Zombies and Guns blazing that appeals to me. Not to mention when a b... (read full)

3/4  Planet Terror Quick Review
I can't decide which one of these two movies I like better. They're both awesome.

3/4  Planet Terror Quick Review
This longer cut doesn't take away or even add much to the theatrical cut for that matter. It's just the same except longer, which isn't bad at all. The film is still fun and has great entertainment value.

3/4  Planet Terror Quick Review
I expected to like Death Proof better, but Rose McGowan's leg/gun is the best, only she got that toward the end. The girl who played the nurse is also good. Enjoyable.

3/4  Planet Terror Quick Review
Even with the special edition, Robert Rodriguez keeps the scratches and skips making this a fun homage to the grindhouse films. It's full of violence and cheesy lines and a chick with a gun for a leg. It doesn't get much better than that.

5/5 Zombies, Hot girls, and Bruce Willis... AWESOME!!!
  by JahSoulsSun (Lindenwold, NJ)
This Blu Ray is amazing. If your a horror fan, I feel like you almost have to like this one. Funny, gorry, sexy, and straight up RAW. A great cast with amazing looking woman. This was the first half of the Grindhouse double feature when it was originally released along with its counter part, Quitin Tarrantino's Deathproof. Made to look like a grainy 1970's horror, you would think a bluray version would be obsolete, but you would be wrong! The Blu Ray version comes with an option to watch the movie with or without the grainy 1970s film looking effect. This results in a crisp clean 1080P looking Planet Terror, or a choppy, grainy 1970s feeling Planet Terror. In my opinion the film is WAY more enjoyable in crisp clean 1080P, and you can see and appreciate the cheesy gore and explosions in a more detailed way. So if you like horror, like good lookin girls, and like Bruce Willis, and have a Blu Ray Player, definately pick this one up. Oh, and watch for Quintin Tarrantinos guest appearance! (Too bad Death Proof SUCKED!!!)

4/5 "Now you've got a gal in your wrecked truck with a missing leg? A missing leg that's now missing?"
  by Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood)
It's "Night of the Living Dead" meets "Showgirls" meets "Smokey and the Bandit"...!

When toxic biochemicals are released into the Earth's atmosphere, transforming innocent bystanders into flesh-guzzling zombies, mankind's only hope lies with former go-go dancer Cherry (Rose McGowan), who wears a machine-gun in place of an amputated leg...one of her many "useless talents"...

That's the bizarre plot of PLANET TERROR, writer/director Robert Rodriguez's homage to the blood-spattered, beaten-up horror movies of the 1970s. This was originally part of the double-feature presentation "Grindhouse" along with Quentin Tarantino's DEATH PROOF, and whilst both movies play well as a double feature, you can easily enjoy PLANET TERROR as a stand-alone movie experience.

Rose McGowan is a natural fit for the role of Cherry; and it's a complete mystery--to this reviewer at least--why it's taken her so long to be the leading lady of an action/horror film; she's perfect! Rodriguez's script is totally tongue-in-cheek with lots of fun references and cliches for the veteran horror experts. Marley Shelton, Josh Brolin, Bruce Willis, Freddy Rodriguez, and "The Crazy Babysitter Twins" co-star.

The Blu-ray comes stacked with extras, including director commentary, cast interview featurettes, "scratch-free" version of the movie, audience reaction track, "Film School" tutorial featurette and BD-Live components. The perfect movie for starting a lazy weekend!

5/5 Fast, furious and rockin' zombie flick!
  by John Lindsey (Socorro, New Mexico USA.)

A deadly military experiment is accidently released as a gas turns some of the soliders into vicious flesh-eating mutant zombie-esque ghouls that begin to spread a virus through their bite that can turn people into the same creatures. Sexy stripper Cherry Darling (Rose Mcgowan) whom just got her leg ripped apart by those creatures joins forces with a maverick (Freddy Rodriguez), a female smuggler (Naveen Andrews), a restraunt owner (Jeff Fahry) and a female doctor (Mary Shelton) as they must battle every one of those abominations and find out what is behind all this madness.

Co-starring Bruce Willis, Tom Savini, Quentin Tarantino and Josh Brolin this is an electrifying and funny Sci-fi horror action packed rollercoaster ride of a film. Writer-director-producer Robert Rodriguez ("Sin City", "Desperado", "El Mariachi" and "From Dusk Till Dawn") with producer and co-star Quentin Tarantino have conjured up the best of the two stories on 2007's experimental cinematic flick "Grindhouse". It's got lots of great performances including some 70's 16mm style grainy filming including a brief missing reel part to make it seem like the audience is in a grindhouse theater, i also love how the heroine in this movie is very sexy yet original as she's like no other heroine to hit film before yet she kicks ace. This movie is loaded with non-stop action and graphic scenes of gore such as castration, cannibalism, exploding heads, brains exposed including everything but the kitchen sink.

This 2-Disc Blu-Ray set offers awesome surround picture and sound that will rock your home-theater as it's presented in it's uncut and extended version with footage not shown in theaters. There's some great extras like audio commentary, audience reaction track, Trailer, additional scratch free version, BD-live, 10 minute film school featurette, featurettes, reel of casting and poster gallery.

Also recommended: "Night of the Living Dead (1968 and 1990)", "Re-Animator", "Dawn of the Dead (1978 and 2004)", "Day of the Dead (1985)", "Return of the Living Dead 1 2 and 3", "The Hills Have Eyes (2006)", "Dead Alive (a.k.a. Braindead)", "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (a.k.a. Living Dead at The Manchester Morgue)", "Nightmare City", "Hell of the Living Dead", "Demons", "The Toxic Avenger", "Redneck Zombies", "Scanners", "Fido", "From Dusk Till Dawn", "Shaun of the Dead", "Undead", "The Stuff", "Battle Royale", "Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky", "Tokyo Zombie", "Bio-Zombie", "Tokyo Gore Police", "Wanted", "Heavy Metal", "Evil Dead 2", "Kill Bill 1 and 2", "Dead Heat (1988)", "Cannibal Apocaypse", "Resident Evil Trilogy", "Resident Evil Degeneration", "Akira", "28 Days/28 Weeks Later", "Bad Taste", "Lifeforce", "From Beyond", "Bride of Re-Animator", "Beyond Re-Animator", "Night of the Creeps", "Night of the Comet", "Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)", "The Blob (1988)", "The Dead Next Door" and "American Werewolf in London".

5/5 "looks like a no brainer"
  by klipschfan
As far as bad movies go, this one has it all. Cheesy one-liners, extreme gore, nonstop action, some bad language, gratuitous sexual content; and, a hot chick with a machine gun leg. This is one of those movies where you will laugh and cringe at the same time. Acting is intentionally overdone; so, it's actually good acting! The picture is ok; but, has been edited to make it look faded, scrathed-up and older. That's because it's paying tribute to the Grindhouse films of old. Sound is great; but, a little too good for a grindhouse film. The only thing about the blu-ray is, that I wish they would drop the scratch-free version; and, add the theatrical cut in whole. On the whole, I liked Planet Terror a little better then Death Proof.

5/5 The best Blu-ray edition of a Tarantino project so far (definitely a 'buy')
  by A. Dent (Minas Anor, GD)
What more is there to say about what, in my view, is a brilliant, unashamed exploitation zombie movie that's already a classic? Yes, I know, the Grindhouse double-feature didn't too so well in the theaters but maybe the public wasn't yet ready for such advance cinematographic material. Maybe it still isn't and maybe it will never be. I know that I will never get myself tired of anything Tarantino or Tarantino-related and a movie where Tarantino, if fact plays a part and it's supposed to be the B-movie to Quentin's 'Death Proof' is a Tarantino movie to me (sorry, Robert Rodriguez). Just for the fun of name-dropping, did you know that Fergie (yes THAT Fergie) ends up eaten here? That Bruce Willis falls flat on the floor, as it decomposes? That Carlos Gallardo (El Mariachi) plays the main gunslinger? That Robert Rodriguez kills (the character played by ) his own preschool son - his son plays a part where he ends up dead. That his real-life family doctor actually plays a doctor? There's so much to learn and talk about and it's all on second disk's extra but Rose McGowan absolutely steals the show. She played a relatively short part in Death Proof but her Planet Terror role is likely to be the role of her lifetime. She's simply perfect, sensational, stunningly beautiful and deadly accurate when it comes to shooting with that leg-mounted machine gun.

But, I wasn't planning to talk much about the movie itself. I only wanted to make some brief remarks about the Blu-ray edition of Planet Terror.

To my surprise, Planet Terror goes a lot farther than any of the previous Tarantino-related (yes, I know, it's Robert Rodriguez) Blu-ray releases in actually taking advantage of the Blu-ray technology. A lot farther than Death Proof, Kill Bill or Reservoir Dogs.

Disk one, has TWO versions of the movie. The 'scratched' original and, surprisingly (because Death Proof lacks it) a mostly 'clean' copy. In addition to the 'regular' and the traditional 'commentary' sound track it's possible to select the 'audience reaction track' (available on the 'scratched' version only. Interestingly, the 'clean' version does not include the 'Machete Man' introduction.

The sound track is Dolby TrueHD or Dolby 5.1 in English and it is so on both the 'regular' and the 'audience reaction' tracks. French and Spanish tracks are also available in Dolby 5.1 only. Subtitles are English or Spanish but not in French.

As it is the case with Death Proof, BD Live is one of the options listed as a 'special feature' but, when selected, you are told to that it is not available at this time and to 'check back later'.

The second disk is full of rather interesting featurettes. There's an 11 minute one titled '10-minute film school' where Robert Rodriguez talks about the making of the movie, there are shorts on 'the gals' and the 'boys', extras on the special effects, trailers, etc., etc., etc. and, to my surprise, the quality of extras is quite decent.

Briefly: it goes a long way but not 'all the way' toward taking advantage of Blu-ray, some of the options and features implementation are confusing (see above), for reasons impossible to comprehend it claims to have BD Live but it does not, the second disk, full of extras is actually worth watching.

This edition earns its 4 stars.