From Dusk Till Dawn
1996
***
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Cast: George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Cheech Marin, Ernest Liu, Salma Hayek, Michael Parks, Tom Savini
Two brothers on the run from the law hijack a family in an RV and force them to drive it across the border to a rendezvous point in Mexico. What follows is mayhem, but not the kind you'd expect. The first half of Quentin Tarantino's screenplay delivers a familiar smorgasbord of cool characters, hip dialogue, and brutal violence. At halfway point, the film does a 180 and becomes something completely different. The whole is messy but quite enjoyable. Cheech Marin appears in three amusing roles. The special effects look cheap. Followed by a number of low budget sequels.
