| From Dusk Till Dawn | | Cast : | Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis | | Director : | Robert Rodriguez | | Studio : | Dimension Home Video | | Format : | Color, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | January 19, 1996 | | DVD Released Date : | October 03, 2000 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 12, 2005 | | Summary | concept was a decent idea, just didn't seam together well | Content
 | I watched this movie knowing a bit about it. Two guys end up going to a bar with vampires, thats about all I knew. The first half of this movie really pulled me in. It was cool and the acting was smooth and funny at times. The first half of the plot was simple enough to keep me watching. But then, outta nowhere vampires show up at the bar their at. Why? There is no explanation until the very end, we're just supposed to sit here and think, "Oh hey, vampires...interesting." There are no "rumors of vampires" or urban legands that they hear, nothing, it just happens. And everyone seems to be not shocked. They're just like "Uh oh, better start killing them." Are you kidding, if i saw a vampire i'd sh*t my pants. It was an interesting mix of that action/horror had it only been tied together a little better. If the one genre bled onto the other one then i probably would have enjoyed this movie better. However, its just as seperated as Part 1 and Part 2, you can almost see the split in film as it turns from action to horror. It had alot of premise, but just couldn't hold it together in the end |
| Rating | | | Date | August 06, 2005 | | Summary | Great double sided movie | Content
| From Dusk Till Dawn was an entertaining movie. It starts off as a simple movie with two brothers trying to get into Mexico to escape feds and meeting a family by chance. Within an hour, it turns into this all out bloodfest with vampires and bats becoming more of a fantasy movie. It was a good movie one that doesn't put you to sleep yet one that doesn't mesmorize you either. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 25, 2005 | | Summary | Dragging, but good. | Content
| The first half of this movie is very Quinten Tarantino, the dialogue and the way everything is paced reminds me of his other movies alot. The second half drops a little in quality and the dialogue that is Tarantino becomes average TV movie talk. Harvey Keitel would have been alot better without his Texas accent, but he was still good. Tarantino's character was interesting and not what I would have expected, but I wish that they would've spent more time on him once he turned into a vampire. George Clooney's character, Seth, was exactly like every other character I've seen him play. Clooney is probably one of the least versatile actors I know of. As this is a Robert Rodriguez film it wouldn't be complete without his leading lady, Salma Hayek. This film contains a scene featuring her for not long enough, but it's definately a high point in the movie for any male. As this is a vampire movie, and it is sold as a vampire movie, one of the things preventing me from classifying it as "Very Good" is the fact that vampires really don't have a big part in it at all. Sure, they have a long stretch (featuring Tom Savini acting, which is great) but the film doesn't have the feel of a vampire movie's sense of dread. It may be funny at times, but the vampires aren't used enough throughout the story as a threat. The police are played up as more of an enemy as the vampires, and that to me is sad. Another thing is that this movie is about 1 hr. 40 minutes or so, yet it feels like a movie drags on forever. Anyway, it's still an entertaining film and I recommend it to anyone interested, but I cannot in anyway guarantee that you will enjoy it.
NOTE:
This film is for no one under 13 years old. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 08, 2005 | | Summary | Original, Top-Of-The-Line Vampire Horror | Content
| It's hard to do much original with vampires after literally hundreds of films featuring the creatures, including excellent picks like "Near Dark" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula", but "From Dusk 'Til Dawn" is one of a few over the last decade that's injected fresh, vibrant blood into the always popular vampire subgenre, and has helped keep it a healthy subsection of the horror field.
With great performances from an excellent cast that includes George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Salma Hayak, Quentin Tarantino, Ernest Liu, Tom Savini and Kelly Preston, it's odd in that for almost the whole first half of the movie there's no indication at all that you're seeing a horror movie. What you've got is a superb suspense thriller/whacked-out crime drama about two convicts (Clooney and Tarantino) abducting a family in their motorhome to make a getaway down to Mexico. When the horror elements come in, they don't creep in gradually but kick in the proverbial door howling for blood, driven by some of the best monster effects ever seen. I don't know if this kind of pacing would work in a lot of movies, but it was extremely potent here. A fantastic horror movie that, because of its superstar cast, has the potential to draw new fans into the entire genre. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 30, 2005 | | Summary | "Do they LOOK like Psychos to you?!?" | Content
| Two bank robbing brothers and a family of hostages, a Mexican bar just over the border populated by blood-sucking vampires, Salma Hayek in one of her first Hollywood roles, Cheech Marin in several roles, and an ocean of violence and gore mark this collaborative effort by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, but on screen it's all George Clooney's show. "Dusk" is actually two hyper-violent movies. The first half tracks the sociopath Gecko brothers (Tarantino & Clooney) as they escape across Texas with the fruits of their latest heist. Their goal: Mexico, where they will find sanctuary with a crime lord played by Marin. To get across the border, they hijack an RV driven by Harvey Keitel (as a lapsed preacher) and his daughter Kate (Juliette Lewis). At first hostages, Keitel and co. bond with the crazy Gecko's if only to keep them from killing anybody. Once in Mexico, things change quickly - Gecko's meeting is placed at some horrid cross-border bar/strip-club/brothel. At first, it appears to be the Gecko's kind of place - until the bar's owners reveal themselves to be vicious, blood sucking vampires. Trapped inside the hellish bar, and barely surviving the first battle with the vampires, the Gecko's forge an uneasy alliance with the remaining human patrons - their hostages, as well as a cool vet named Frost (Fred Williamson) and a biker played by horror legend Tom Savini. Their goal - to survive the night.
This was not only an extremely violent, gory and supercharged movie, but seems to exist for that alone. The script posits gratuitous action for no purpose. Even the vampire plot seems to drop out of nowhere, ending an interesting rapport between Clooney and Keitel. Trapped inside the evil bar, it's less a movie than an R-rated Haunted-House ride. That said, the movie is godawful fun, with Rodriguez painfully and hysterically finding different ways for the humans to dispatch the vampires. The script is laced with wicked lines - most by George Clooney. This has to be one of the most wickedly guilty pleasures since "The Last Boy Scout" and about the furthest thing you can get from a chick-flick. |
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