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Vampires.
From Quentin Tarantino. From Robert Rodriguez.
From Dusk Till Dawn.
The Showdown is on.
One Night is all that stands between them and freedom.
But it`s going to be a hell of a night.
How far can to far go?
This Western- vampire- buddy picture, with a script by Quentin Tarantino, is consistently funny, hip, great to look at, and occasionally brilliant,
But it`s also crude, mindless, repetitive. Quentin Tarantino may be the most gifted young filmmaker in America today. George Clooney plays Seth Gecko, a jive – talking hipster who also happens to be a vicious bank robber. Quentin Tarantino (still laboring under the delusion that he is an interesting actor) plays Seth`s kid brother, Richard, squeaky-voiced, bespectacled, psychopathic, homicidal sex offender. Richard springs Seth from prison and they head to Mexico, where a mysterious criminal named Carlos has promised them sanctuary in exchange for part of their stolen goods. The brothers take hostages to ensure safe passage across the border. A preacher named Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel), who lost his faith in God when his wife died in a car crash, his daughter Kate (Juliette Lewis) and his son Scott. In Mexico the group heads for a bar called, improbably enough, The Titty Twister, where Seth and Richard are supposed to meat Carlos at dawn. But it turns out that Titty Twister is a front for Aztec vampires who lure truckers and bikers with the promise of debauchery, then drink their blood or convert them to undead status. When our heroes figure this out, the movie becomes a special-effects-laden thrill ride consisting of one hyperviolent encounter after another. The characters are well-drawn, in a comic book way, and the actors are marvellous.
The best part of the movie is in the middle, in which the Geckos and the Fullers flesh out and edgy, grim, sometimes appallingly funny relationship. But once the vampires starts screaming and jumping, Tarantino and Rodriguez chuck the story out the window and go for the wham-bams, referencing all their favourite horror films (including Near Dark, Dawn of the Dead, and Evil Dead II). There are moments so demented that they border on genius, and even when the film turns mean and dumb and sour, there`s always something interesting to look at, a strange supporting character to laugh at, or a clever line of dialogue to groove on.But as stylish and invetive as this movie is, you don`t come away from it feeling particularly shaken, or even scared, and certainly not disappointed.
Tarantino critize the mediafocusation on violent episodes, making it exciting just to catch the viewers attention. As in Natural Born Killers, where the whole theme of the movie concerns these facts. The media kind of "plays" on the criminals team to make a fancy report, (like in the hunt of O. J.Simpson).
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