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Jeff_Wilder [ 7.0 ]
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A loose hybrid of Reservoir Dogs and Night Of The Living Dead. Which is appropriate as Quentin Tarantino wrote this and co-stars in it and Robert Rodriguez handles the direction. Making his big screen breakthrough is George Clooney in the lead role as bank robber Seth Gecko. Tarantino plays his hotheaded brother Richie. The Gecko brothers are trying to get across the border into Mexico. To accomplish this they kidnap former Preacher Harvey Keitel and his family so they can sneak across in his RV. The kidnapping/sneaking across part is teh first half of teh movie and is the Reservoir Dogs part. The second half involves vampires and takes place at a Mexican bar. Entertaining to be sure. But its also a mess. Worth a viewing. But below Tarantino's usual standard and Rodriguez's best.
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brandon [ 6.0 ]
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the first half of this film was sub-par for tarantino and rodriguez .. but sill more than decent. the second half of this film .. was just sub-par sub-par. however, i was pleasantly suprised by tarantino's decent acting turn ..
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Dancing_P [ 8.5 ]
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Tarantino revels in more of his film-geekery in this pull-out-all-stops vampire mayhem. This is why I love Tarantino (he didn't direct, but even when all he does is pen the script, he's brilliant); he's not afraid to make a "bad" movie in the sense that even "bad" movies have their killer moments. He watches all these killer moments and then puts them together in a film like FDTD or True Romance. In this one, he stars along with George Clooney as a pair of brothers/bank robbers who head to Mexico and pick up an ex-minister (Harvey Keitel) and his family along the way. Once he gets there, all hell breaks loose when the denizens of a bar turn out to be vampires. It's complete and utter bollocks, and that's exactly the way it should be. At the beginning of the movie, Clooney has one of those movie-poster, back-of-the-box and end-of-the-trailer moments where he cocks his head and says "Everybody be cool." Everybody IS cool in this movie. There's this one kickass moment where Harvey Keitel, Fred Williamson, George Clooney and Tom Savini (the maverick gore wizard, of course) are all lined up and they all have some sort of weapon of destruction in their hands. On a pure film-geek level from one to ten, that shot alone deserves a 12. That's the kind of movie From Dusk Till Dawn is. It's hardly perfect; most of the performances are rather one-note or hammy (save for Keitel and Clooney) and the dialogue pales in comparison to most of Tarantino's other ventures, but in the end, that's the least of your worries.
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chapter11 [ 6.0 ]
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Directionless but fairly fun little movie misleads by allowing the audience to think they're watching a movie about bank robbers, and suddenly degenerating into a lengthy, climactic vampire battle, complete with spastic smatterings of "Evil Dead"-caliber gore. That said, the acting is uniformly good--- I 'specially liked Harvey Keitel's low-key turn as a soft-spoken deep-south preacher--- and for awhile, there's something vaguely exciting about the vampire fights, even if it renders the first hour of the movie completely useless. Watch for Rodriguez regulars Danny Trejo, Salma Hayek, and Cheech Marin--- in Marin's case, watch a whole bunch of times.
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| Weighted Rating | : 6.1 |
| No. Ratings | : 21 | |
| No. Reviews | : 10 | |
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