BBM at the movies - From Dusk Till Dawn review

    I think that a suitable beginning to this review would be to state that I think this film rules. The plot is, that two professional bank robbers (Clooney & Tarantino) are on the run from the law in Texas and are heading for the Mexican boarder and on the way they take the Fuller family hostage so that they can cross the boarder hastle free. When in Mexico they have arranged to meet Carlos to do the deal with the loot from one of the bank jobs but whilst they are having a few drinks in the Titty Twister bar (we are reliably informed by the door man Chet Pussy that it serves the best pussy in the whole of Mexico) they are beseiged by hundreds of vampires.
     The film is about half without vampitres and half with. the first time that I watched the movie I wondered wht the hell was going on when the vampires started appearing everywhere and thought that it spoilt what was turning into a pretty cool badass bank robbers on the run movie, but after the initial shock subsided and I regained my composure I was able to appreciate all the vampire choas and realise that it didn't spoil the movie in the slightest.
     The reason that I was so disappointed at first was because Clooney and Tarantino made two excellent villans. Clooney was surprisingly good. Bearing in mind that this was in '96 when he hadn't really established himself in the movies and was just some American dude from ER that all the women seemed to fancy I didn't expect too much, but I was surprised because he was excellent. And then there was Tarantino playing Clooney's ever so slightly messed up brother. There are some people (idiots if you ask me) that critisise Tarantino's acting ability and complain like whining little cretins when he acts in his films but I think he's super sweet. Every time I have seen him he has made me laugh and as Dusk Till Dawn is kind of comedic he was top in it. Was he not good in Desperado in the brief time he appeared, and what about Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction. I can't get enough of him and the more he's in these films the better.
     The other actors in it are also good. Harvey Keitel another of my favourites is good as the religious father, as are Juliette Lewis and Cheech Marin who, having seen him again in this movie has inspired me to look for Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams which I've not seen in ages but still have on tape somewhere and I will be watching it next week sometime, so watch out.
     There are also loads of lines and little things that I noticed this time around that made me laugh, for example, when one of the zombies gets killed on the pool table his eyes roll into the pockets. That's just one example but there were loads more that I can't remember at the moment because my short term memory sucks ass. Oh yeah, Sex Machine's penis gun, that was pretty funny. All in all it's a very cool, funny and entertaining movie and one that I would watch every time it's on TV.