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| Year of first release: 1996 | |
| Director: Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids, Sin City, Planet Terror) | |
| Actors: Harvey Keitel (The Grand Hotel Budapest), George Clooney (Up in the Air, The American), Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers), Quentin Tarantino (Planet Terror) | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Horror, Thriller | |
| Conditions of visioning: 19.08.2014, Blu-ray, Home cinema | |
| Synopsis: After a bloody courthouse escape and bank robbery, the Gecko brothers (Clooney & Tarantino) rush to Mexico to find refuge, with a family as hostage. | |
| Review: Nothing beats the first viewing of From Dusk Till Dawn, when after 45 minutes of Tarantino style (although filmed by Rodriguez), you enter a completely different movie. It is quite a treat if you don't expect it. This mix of genres is the most interesting characteristics of this movie. I saw the movie many time when I discovered it around 1998, I even had the poster hanging in my bedroom, but last time I did was on an old VHS about 10 year ago. The recent Blu-ray release was the opportunity to appreciate the show one more and at its best. The soundtrack I remembered well because I bought the CD at some point and listen to it regularly. I realize that I love the movie as much now as I did 10 years ago, it is probably the highlight of the Tarantino/Rodriguez collaboration, not equaled ever since. The two main actors are fantastic in roles perfect for them, and the rest are also good in ultra-caricatured roles: the pastor who lost faith, the shy teenage daughter that will become a woman, the biker Sex-Machine, the ex-marine, the bartender (played by a young Danny Machete Trejo). The atmosphere is, as I said, characteristic of a movie influenced by Tarantino: strong characters (outlaws) to which one could get attached, punch lines, crude but realistic description of a part of the USA (in that case Texas). And then the second part is excellent if you like this kind of movies. It contains all one could expect, and is shot in a funny yet mastered way. The Mexican rock is great and the dance scene with Salma Hayek unforgettable. Only in Blu-ray could I notice many details I never saw before, in good (the bloody special effects) or in bad (actors not always giving a good performance, which can be understood when you know that Rodriguez don't usually record many takes of a scene). After two cheap sequels, I heard there is a TV-series now with the same title. I wonder if it's any good... |
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Rating: 8 /10
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Monday, August 25, 2014
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
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It is funny because I was listening to soundtrack of From dusk till down the last week. And via the music, many scenes came back in mind. There are several legendary scenes in this movie: the appearance of ZZTop, Salma Hayek dancing. There are some legendary dialogues: the talk from the outlaws to the family, the Pussy call in front of the bar, the words of the pastor Keitel ready to fight. Some scenes are a bit too long, in both parts of the movie. This damps the legend to an excellent movie "only". Last but not least, the music. Tarentino is used to have good music and this one, again, fits so good to the movie that when I heard to the soundtrack last week, I could see again the scenes. Great. My Rating is a good 8/10.
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