From Dusk Till Dawn - 1996

A terrifying evil has been unleashed.

What started off as a brilliant film with great dark humour, quickly changed to a slow, dull and vastly overrated pile of garbage which I felt awfully let down by, especially as George Clooney could not have played a more dire part if he had tried and he is not generally known for picking bad parts. Without knowing a lot about this story you would be mistaken to think it revolves around a couple of vampires when they are in fact a recently convicted thief and his emotionally unstable paedophilic brother who decide to take a family with a camper-van hostage which in turn will ensure them freedom over the border to Mexico. Sound good? My point exactly. Tarantino is pretty haunting in his role and makes for unsettling viewing,but not in a good way, while Clooney goes macho and insists on swearing and shooting and making threats. Put the two of them together and you've got yourself a pretty dodgy combination of male testosterone gone mad. As expected, Juliette Lewis is tedious and irritating as the daughter of hostage Harvey Keitel. In fact before I even read the cast list I had a feeling she would be in it. She seems to make a point of being in mentally challenging and psychotic movies where she plays the same character over and over again. The climax is so ridiculous that I am not even going to mention it, just tell you not to bother.

Rating 2/5