Movie Review: From Dusk till Dawn (1996)

Summer's almost here and I thought I'd review a movie that doesn't have so much to analyze, but something that I consider fun and super entertaining. From Dusk till Dawn is a 1996 film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino. Now from the first scenes in this movie till the beginning of the ending piece, I was hooked. It's a really interesting story. Basically Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney are these two bad guys called the Gecko brothers. They take this family hostage that consists of Juliette Lewis, Harvey Keitel, and this one other kid who wasn't all that great in the movie. Then they take the family hostage and they end up at this bar that is run by vampires. They get to the bar and they find out that the place that they've entered is really bizzare. Now let me just say, I like the scenes in the bar, they are good. However, the scene ends in violence (No spoilers) and the violence isn't like the usual entertaining Tarantino violent scenes. The violence is like that of Aliens in which the violence actually can be seen as being sort of slow and delayed. Now it's not too delayed  in this movie, but you get the picture. What do I like about this movie? All of the actors are really intense and into it. Accept for the one Asian kid who's part of Harvey K's family. I don't hate him as an actor, but he doesn't add anything to the story. Harvey Keitel and Juliette Lewis are both actors and actresses who really add stuff to the content they do. One of the things in this movie that is very apparent is the fact that Quentin Tarantino sort of acts like his real life self in this film. It goes back and forth, he is intense and then he's himself. It's just weird. Had the scene in the bar been a little shorter, than this would be a really perfectly executed movie. Overall, From Dusk till Dawn is gruesome, violent, and wildly entertaining. 2.5 stars