From Dusk Till Dawn (DVD)

The thing is, it should have been fantastic. A Tarantino script, directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring George Clooney. A virtual Who’s Who of hip Hollywood, mid-90s style. And yet it’s a mess. The plot gives us a pretty good clue as to where From Dusk Till Dawn went wrong. Two robbers on the run get holed up in a Mexican strip bar, which suddenly and randomly turns out to be full of vampires. The complete shift around the halfway mark is an interesting experiment in film form. But just as scientists don’t tend to jam cats in boxes to test Schrödinger, so turning your low-rent heist movie into a vampire horror fest is a Bad Idea. The problem ...  Read the complete review

From Dusk Till Dawn is a 1996 horror/action film, directed by Robert Rodriguez, written by Quentin Tarantino and starring George Clooney, Harvey Keitel and Juliette Lewis. Seth and Richard Gecko (Clooney as the former, Quentin Tarantino as the latter) are two bank robbers on the run after Seth has broken his psychotic brother Richard out of jail. Their intention is to meet their contact in Mexico who will aid them in starting a new life across the border. To improve their chances of passing border police, they kidnap Jacob Fuller (Keitel), a minister experiencing a crisis of faith, and his children Kate (Lewis) and Scott (Ernest Lieu) and hide in their ...  Read the complete review

I can't believe I haven't reviewed this yet! This is an excellent film! One of Quentin Tarrantino's early films, it stars the director himself alongside George Clooney as two criminal brothers on the run. They take a family hostage, headed by ex-priest father Harvey Keitel, and daughter a young Juliette Lewis, and head to a bar for a rendezvous...and then things get weird. This film is a landmark in cinema history because of the way it totally subverts and messes with the rules of cinema. For half the film you think it's one thing, and then it turns into the complete opposite in the middle. I won't give away what that is, but believe me it's worth ...  Read the complete review

From Dusk Til Dawn starts off as a fairly typical Tarantino film, with fugitives Seth Gecko (George Clooney) and his mentally unhinged brother Richie (Tarantino) on the run from the law, kidnapping a faithless ex-pastor (Harvey Keitel), his daughter Kate (Juliette Lewis) and half-Chinese stepson Scott (Ernest Lieu) to use them as hostages en route to the Mexican Border, travelling in the family's mobile home. Its all great stuff, with taranino's mix of ultra-violence and eccentric comedy in evidence, but in the second half From Dusk Til Dawn morphs intoo a different film entirely when the group enter a sleazy and dangerous biker-bar called the T*tty ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster From Dusk til Dawn takes two now well-established directors as they were getting famous - Robert Rodriguez (who hadn't yet made Sin City or Once Upon a Time in Mexico), and Quentin Tarantino (who had made Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction but still not hit it "mainsteam" yet) - throws their ideas in a blender, and comes out with the wonderful mess of a film that is From Dusk til Dawn. The film is a rather strange one of two halves - the first half is a straightforward cops and robbers hostage drama, as two fugitive brothers Seth (George Clooney) and Richie Gecko (Quentin Tarantino himself!) are trying ...  Read the complete review