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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 CriticI 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.
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.
The characters were as empty as the story.
The movie, which treats you with contempt for even watching it, is a monument to its own lack of imagination.
A tired, humorless pastiche of various exploitation genres that is not the least bit imaginative in its campy deconstruction of conventions.
Mr. Rodriguez demonstrates his talents more clearly than ever -- he's visually inventive, quick-witted and a fabulous editor -- while still hampering himself with sophomoric material.
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A drop-dead-erotic scene a seduction dance by the bar's featured performer, Santanico Pandemonium ... is one of the two reasons to see this movie.
Fans of the genre will like it, especially in the no-holds barred second half. Others are advised to avoid this one.
From Dusk Till Dawn will be a real disappointment for most Tarantino fans.
The picture shows what happens when a writer (Tarantino) and a director (Rodriguez) come together and reinforce each other's worst tendencies and misconceptions.
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.
It is a shame to see so much good talent giving such low-yield results.
The filmmakers' references, their winks and nods to the audience, are far more diverting than the picture itself.
If you're going to like it, you already know it.
Top CriticI can think of worse things to sit through than an orgy of bullets, exploding corpses, and stripper vampires.
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