Not as much fun as the Intruder (which is well worth getting if you're a Deadite fan, oh yeah) but still a good laugh a using loads of Spiegel's trade mark POV shots. Oh yeah - the film - well, it's good in a Scott Speigel kind of way. And, let's face it, that's how come Bruce Campbell's in this movie - they go way back. That's the kind of guy Scott Speigel is and I like him. Next day when Bruce arrived at the office he was stunned to find hundreds of girls lined up waiting to show Scott their boobs for the chance to get on the screen topless for maybe 2 or 3 seconds. Apparently it was all Scott's idea he steamrollered the idea past them when they weren't paying attention. I watched Army of Darkness the other day, the bootleg edition, with the commentary on and was belly laughing when two topless slave girls wander on to the screen and Bruce recounts the story of how they got into the movie. If you've read the 'Evil Dead companion' or 'If Chins could kill' you'll know what kind of guy Scott Speigel is. It's no classic, but it's mildly amusing. Overall, I'd recommend it if you can catch it on the cheap. It's kinda fun the first twenty times, but after that. As for the Raimi-esque POV shots, a little goes a long way - something that Scott Spiegel should have learned from the master. It's stuff like this which suggests the writers didn't know quite what they were doing. Adding the solar eclipse does nothing here. Which is another pointless plot point - if you want vampires to be in the darkness, just keep them in darkness and have the sun come up normally. The ending is just one big shootout, prolonged by a convenient solar eclipse. There is no real climax - the vampire bad guys are subsequently interchangeable, and the only really competent one (Jesus) gets killed before the formerly-dimwitted one. The writers seemed to have run out of ideas, and so we just get interminable variations on these two basic ideas. Once we get the first guy bit by a vampire, it moves along to "vampires rob a bank" and "vampires shoot it out with police." But.that's really about it. Like the original, it tries to stay "reality" grounded as a caper flick, but given this is a shorter movie, this goes on _way_ too long before you actually get to vampires. The problem is that that's really all there is, and there's not much running track. It takes a basic ideas (vampires robbing a bank) and goes with it and runs. Welcome To Slavery.I only caught the "edited" version on Sci-Fi Channel, but must admit that I found this to be a mildly entertaining film. Well as long as you don't venture out to "The Titty Twister" yourself of course. It's bonkers and silly as hell, but once a fan of "From Dusk Till Dawn", you are a fan for life. Hey don't like the film by all means, but failure to understand its genre leanings and homage persuasion is as funny as Cheech Marin is in the movie (one of many awesome "B" cult movie actors in the pic). Honestly you can go to various sites and read people saying the characters are shallow, or the plot is preposterous!! Dear me, it staggers the mind. For it's a key point that "From Dusk Till Dawn" is a damn funny film as well, something that bizarrely many critics have failed to understand. On it goes really, yet as Rodriguez and Tarantino start thrusting a blunt blade into your stomach, you really should be feeling them also caressing the funny bones in both your arms. Swearing, blood, limbs severed, nudity, violence, sexual references, guns, more violence, more blood, other weapons, lots of teeth, bats, a snake, more violence. Can they make it till dawn and let the daylight be their saviour?. Trouble is, is that "The Titty Twister" isn't no ordinary bar, it's a vampire stronghold and the Geko's - and their newly acquired captives, are on the menu. From here they must make it to a rendezvous point in Mexico - a bar called "The Titty Twister", where they will exchange cash with a friend of Seth's and start their new lives as Mexican civilians. After overcoming a couple of fatal (for others) hiccups, the brothers, in need of a vehicle, kidnap faithless minister Jacob (Harvey Keitel), his daughter Kate (Juliette Lewis) and adopted son Scott (Ernest Liu). They are heading for the haven of Mexico with wads of cash garnered from a robbery. The plot, for what's it's worth, sees two criminal brothers, Seth (George Clooney) & Richie Gecko (Tarantino) on the lam after Richie breaks Seth out of prison. There's no surprise element with the film, you get everything that director Robert Rodriguez and writer Quentin Tarantino said you would get - a hard buttocked road movie that turns into a raging "B" horror movie gore fest. I absolutely love "From Dusk Till Dawn", very much one of those films that you either buy into or you don't. It was probably the most fun I had at the cinema back in 1996.
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