From Dusk Till Dawn
1996 Directed by Robert Rodriguez
Synopsis
One night is all that stands between them and freedom. But it's going to be a hell of a night.
Seth Gecko and his younger brother Richard are on the run after a bloody bank robbery in Texas. They escape across the border into Mexico and will be home-free the next morning, when they pay off the local kingpin. They just have to survive 'from dusk till dawn' at the rendezvous point, which turns out to be a Hell of a strip joint.
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I have a feeling the entire reason this film exists is so Quentin could drink from the foot of Salma Hayek.
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Badass soundtrack?
Check.Dialogue that's instantly recognisable as Tarantino's?
Check.The same guy being a creepy bastard?
Check.Harvey Keitel just being Harvey motherfucking Keitel?
Check.Gory, over the top action scenes?
Check.Vampire strippers?
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Still plays completely unpredictable from beginning to end just like every single Tarantino production has, and always will.
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Not just one of the best genre films ever made. It's one of the best films ever made. Period!! Flawless in every way.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Wish we saw Clooney in another gritty role.
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I adore this film! I've seen it once before, and it lived up to how amazing my recollection of it was. I'm not a huge George Clooney fan, but he really hits the nail on the head in this.
You could argue that I love this film because I am a diehard Tarantino fan, and whilst I am indeed I diehard fan, there is more to my adoration for this film then a simple love for a particular persons work.
Firstly he didn't direct this film, so it is not bound to be like his other films. He may have written the screenplay, and have acted in it to, but massive kudos MUST be given to Robert Rodriguez for his…
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I saw this movie three times theatrically when I was 14 (The third time was at a dollar theater - the film broke just as the Titty Twister's staff were turning into vampires. A fellow patron also rolled a beer bottle down the center aisle.). I thought it was the coolest fucking thing I'd ever seen ... part of me still does.
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Awesome, gruesome and witty, another gem from Rodriguez.
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I think this is a perfect movie. I have seen it dozens of times and I love it more today than the first time. George Clooney's best role and he will never top it.
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This film was my introduction to messieurs Rodriguez and Tarantino, viewing it way before the seminal films such as Pulp Fiction and the Mariachi Trilogy.
Viewing the film way before I was the appropriate age to watch it encouraged me to research and and look into more projects by the duo, for which I'm eternally thankful. Possibly one of the first films that reintegrated Grind-house Cinema style back into the film industry back in the 90's. A fun bloody monster movie and a firm favorite of mine. -
'He's right. Peter Cushing does that all the time.'
Not as snappy as some of Tarantino's other scripts but possibly the most bizarre and twisted (well, in a way), From Dusk Till Dawn delivers on action, suspense, character development, tension, explosions, nudity and THE MOST USES OF THE WORD P*SSY IN A SENTENCE EVER.
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Rewatched this for the umpteenth time and it's still over the top in every single way.
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@Camdun_Roar: An "A.I.-like" mash-up for Tarantino/Rodriguez. It started with such promise. That's the Tarantino bit - 6/10