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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:28
Rotten:16
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: A pulpy crime drama/vampire film hybrid, From Dusk Till Dawn is an uneven but often deliriously enjoyable B-movie.
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: The reptilian Gecko brothers, Richard and Seth, are headed south of the border after a gruesome killing spree. Along the way, they kidnap jaded preacher Jacob Fuller and his two teenage kids. When... [More]
Starring: George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Rodriguez has a lot of fun dreaming up cool ways to kill people (he's making this his life's work), but he also gets something resembling a performance from Tarantino and transforms Clooney into a full-fledged movie star.
Top CriticEnergetic low-budget vampire nonsense from Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino.
Top CriticThe filmmakers' references, their winks and nods to the audience, are far more diverting than the picture itself.
This is a B-movie, albeit a largish budget B-movie, but with an undeniable B-movie spirit.
This film is 'exploitation' in more than one sense of the word.
The sickest, most perverted movie within memory. Guiltily, I liked it. But what the hell is it?
It's great fun, but certainly not great art.
It is a shame to see so much good talent giving such low-yield results.
From Dusk Till Dawn was probably spawned from an all night bender during which Tarantino and Rodriguez thought it would be fun to see if they could make a deliberately lame movie with someone else's money.
An interesting hybrid film from two of this decade's most intriguing filmmakers.
What we have here in From Dusk Till Dawn is Pulp Fiction with teeth.
From Dusk Till Dawn is an hilarious piece of genre filmmaking.
A fun, tongue-in-cheek gorefest that both spoofs and celebrates the glories of B-grade exploitation vehicles.
I don't mean to dismiss his films, which I enjoy, or cast aspersions on his character, but I've got to admit -- when Tarantino plays his own sordid parts, he gives me the creeps.
It's clever, brash and -- if you're into it -- entertaining movie-making that has it all ways, allowing you a stylishly cynical noninvestment, alongside an old-fashioned attachment to the regular guy.
Imagine two movies plucked from opposite sides of the video store.
The film is so flamboyantly gory and disgusting, so vulgar and in-your-face obnoxious, with so many offensive subplots and wacked-out elements that you may give up long before you need to reach for your second headache tablet.
A tired, humorless pastiche of various exploitation genres that is not the least bit imaginative in its campy deconstruction of conventions.
These guys were going for a B-movie feel, lots of blood, lots of guts, lots of tits and ass, and lots of fun, and for the most part, they achieved their goals.
This movie is just too much fun not to like.
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