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Review #52: From Dusk Till Dawn.
Two brothers, on the run for the brutal murder of innocent people and police officers, kidnap a family while on the road and force them into driving across the America-Mexico border where they have promised to let them go free.
Upon crossing the border just before nightfall, they stop at an out of town strip club where they find a world much more dangerous than anyone could have ever imagined.
It’s another extremely well made movie from Rodriguez and Tarantino. The storytelling is absolutely brilliant with character design and dialogue placement.
The second half of the film is another original point, the viewer never sees it coming (which is why I'm leaving this review relatively bare with smaller details, in case there are people reading who have never seen the film).
There’s also expansion with the characters and their pasts and a coming-to-terms plotline for most of them too, for instance with a faithless preacher who must rediscover his faith and the losses and gains that all of the characters experience throughout the film.
There’s a massive amount of Rodriguez’s stylish violence too. It’s loud, fast, brutal and gory and contains a lot of humour throughout the action scenes too, which give an extra level of authenticity to the action. It’s also really well choreographed.
The acting is another massive thumbs up.
George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino as the brothers are brilliantly contrasting. Clooney is tough and take charge and extremely calculating and intelligent, where as Tarantino is the perverted, slightly dumber ‘follower’ and a bit of a loose cannon. The audience even begins to care for the brothers toward the end too, which is a brilliant piece of writing and acting.
Juliette Lewis is fantastic as the daughter of the family, who is out of her depth in the circumstances who has to toughen up toward the end.
Harvey Keitel as the father of the family and faithless preacher, is also absolutely spot on. Keitel really lifts the troubled character from the page.
It’s hard to find any faults with the film really.
Maybe the special effects at the end suffer a touch with the low budget, but it’s barely recognisable as a fault. More of a Ghostbusters fault i.e; The effects have their own low budget style, but yet, fit the film.
All in all, it’s a brilliantly written, funny, gory, stylish and violent film with some great twists and even better acting, and all on a relatively low budget.
It’s also very underrated, though my rating is still up there... at 95%
Two brothers, on the run for the brutal murder of innocent people and police officers, kidnap a family while on the road and force them into driving across the America-Mexico border where they have promised to let them go free.
Upon crossing the border just before nightfall, they stop at an out of town strip club where they find a world much more dangerous than anyone could have ever imagined.
It’s another extremely well made movie from Rodriguez and Tarantino. The storytelling is absolutely brilliant with character design and dialogue placement.
The second half of the film is another original point, the viewer never sees it coming (which is why I'm leaving this review relatively bare with smaller details, in case there are people reading who have never seen the film).
There’s also expansion with the characters and their pasts and a coming-to-terms plotline for most of them too, for instance with a faithless preacher who must rediscover his faith and the losses and gains that all of the characters experience throughout the film.
There’s a massive amount of Rodriguez’s stylish violence too. It’s loud, fast, brutal and gory and contains a lot of humour throughout the action scenes too, which give an extra level of authenticity to the action. It’s also really well choreographed.
The acting is another massive thumbs up.
George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino as the brothers are brilliantly contrasting. Clooney is tough and take charge and extremely calculating and intelligent, where as Tarantino is the perverted, slightly dumber ‘follower’ and a bit of a loose cannon. The audience even begins to care for the brothers toward the end too, which is a brilliant piece of writing and acting.
Juliette Lewis is fantastic as the daughter of the family, who is out of her depth in the circumstances who has to toughen up toward the end.
Harvey Keitel as the father of the family and faithless preacher, is also absolutely spot on. Keitel really lifts the troubled character from the page.
It’s hard to find any faults with the film really.
Maybe the special effects at the end suffer a touch with the low budget, but it’s barely recognisable as a fault. More of a Ghostbusters fault i.e; The effects have their own low budget style, but yet, fit the film.
All in all, it’s a brilliantly written, funny, gory, stylish and violent film with some great twists and even better acting, and all on a relatively low budget.
It’s also very underrated, though my rating is still up there... at 95%
