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movie review - From Dusk Til Dawn

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This was Tarantino's sendup of his own genre of gangster flick. The first half is an over-the-top Texas crime movie - two brothers are on the run from every conceivable law agency, and make it to the border in a series of kidnappings, shootings, and explosions. The second half of the movie, though, is where it all cuts loose. In the space of thirty seconds, a gunfight in a Mexican roadhouse turns into a night-time fight against a horde of vampires.

Keitel is perfectly believable as a lost preacher, and Lewis puts in what I think is her best work as Keitel's teenage daughter. Clooney comes across like an actor rather than a hardened criminal, but then again with a foil like Tarantino, who wouldn't.

This is one of those flicks you see every now and then - this was at least my third go.

Recommended.