Review of From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) by Wilman A — 09 Oct 2013

From Dusk Till Dawn is like if Bruce Campbell raised The Lost Boys to join forces with the Wolverines of Red Dawn, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Shaft to fight Mexican vampire warriors in a strip club, and frankly, that's one of the coolest f*cking ideas ever, which Robert Rodriguez should be proud of to have helmed such a masterful idea.

From Dusk Till Dawn opens in an absolutely awesome manner, because it uses Robert Rodriguez's iconic Mexploitation style action with awesome blood and a sense of brutality.

It combines the story of gringos into a story of vampires and gives it the atmosphere of a zombie story which is an awesome feel to it, and it's plot is just solidly awesome.

Much of the first part of From Dusk Till Dawn is so sexy and yet so haunting, that my penis has never been more confused.

It never tries to be anything more than a great B-Movie, and it's very proud of that status which it exploits to the perfect extent with strong elements of black humour along the way in Quentin Tarantino's clever and intense script. But it's the cast that makes it all worth it as they blaze through nonstop solid action,.

George Clooney is perfect for the lead role. Although he's known as a serious dramatic actor, he let's go of that in From Dusk Till Dawn to embrace the action overkill and portray a real tough criminal convincingly with all the aggressive elements that make a good action antihero. He shows that he knows how to balance a good action film with fine acting, and to have his name up there in From Dusk Till Dawn is just awesome.

Quentin Tarantino is hilariously over the top in From Dusk Till Dawn taking his first large acting role since Reservoir Dogs by storm and conveying a certain level of mental unbalance and insanity in his performance which fits his iconic sense of violence.

Salma Hayek is at some of her sexiest even though her role is small, and she is somewhat unrecognisable, as her appearance is both hypnotic and haunting. She.

Fred Williamson is perfectly badass and takes in nostalgia to the heyday of blaxploitation films, and he kicks some major ass for the film.

Harvey Keitel's performance was also interesting because it was so toned down from many of his usual roles and it looks significantly different from his usual appearance, so at first I didn't recognise it being him. Nevertheless he was good too.

And Juliette Lewis kicked some ass in her role as she worked at conveying the serious drama of the situation her character is stuck in but never lets it get in the way of her being able to kill and kill again.

Lastly, Cheech Marin was good, and Danny Trejo was just the cherry on top as villain Razor Charlie.

So From Dusk Till Dawn never attempts to rise above its bloody B-Movie roots instead of embracing it, and Robert Rodriguez's heavy handed direction loads it with badass bloody action nonstop from when it starts to when it finishes, and it's more than I could have hoped for which renders it one of the directors finest films.