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- 1996
- R
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 48 m
- 1996
- R
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 48 m
Summary George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino star as the Gecko brothers -- two dangerous outlaws on a wild crime spree. After kidnapping a father (Keitel) and his two kids (Lewis), the Geckos head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety. But when they face the bar's truly notorious clientele, they're forced to team up with their hosta...
Directed By: Robert Rodriguez
Written By: Robert Kurtzman, Quentin Tarantino
- 1996
- R
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 48 m
- 1996
- R
- Dimension Films
- 1 h 48 m
From Dusk Till Dawn
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Summary George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino star as the Gecko brothers -- two dangerous outlaws on a wild crime spree. After kidnapping a father (Keitel) and his two kids (Lewis), the Geckos head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety. But when they face the bar's truly notorious clientele, they're forced to team up with their hosta...
Directed By: Robert Rodriguez
Written By: Robert Kurtzman, Quentin Tarantino
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
48
40% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
40% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
20% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
48
40% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
40% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
20% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
This is horror with a wink and a nod to drive-in theatres and sweaty back seats. This is how it's done.
Imagine two movies...The first is a moody thriller about two brothers who pull off a bank job, take a family hostage, and head for Mexico. The second is a garish horror freak-out. The deranged hook of From Dusk Till Dawn is that it starts out as the first movie and turns, on a dime, into the second.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 299 User Ratings
7.3
70% Positive
208 Ratings
208 Ratings
25% Mixed
74 Ratings
74 Ratings
6% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 299 User Ratings
7.3
70% Positive
208 Ratings
208 Ratings
25% Mixed
74 Ratings
74 Ratings
6% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
Mar 9, 2021
AlvaradoKTAJun 16, 2014
Even on such a low budget, this is the best in the Mexico-trilogy films. Well paced from the opening title to the to be continued promise, every scene has a humorous note. An original script with a good amount of shoot outs, this film
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Mar 26, 2020
One of my favorite Tarantino movies ever. I'm an incredibly big Tarantino fan and this movie is one of his best works. Also 2 of my friends love this movie as much as I do. Great film for Tarantino fans. Fun Fact: The film was written by Quentin Tarantino, but the movie was directed by Robert Rodriguez, which is one of Tarantino's long-time friends
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Mr. Rodriguez demonstrates his talents more clearly than ever -- he's visually inventive, quick-witted and a fabulous editor -- while still hampering himself with sophomoric material.
On a mindless exploitation level this is pretty good, but on other levels it seems to make promises that it fails to deliver on; none of the deaths carries any moral weight, and the climactic special-effects free-for-all tends to drown out all other interests.
Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez had their fun with From Dusk Till Dawn, and now they need to stay away from each other. For their own good. Forever.
Sep 17, 2024
The way I see it, there are two distinct ways to watch this movie. You can bemoan it for cutting away in the midst of a full Tarantino movie, delivered in his prime, or you can sit back and enjoy it for the utterly unpredictable, bewildering, guns-blazing, "I can't believe that just happened," speed boat ride that it is. I fall into the latter camp, and while both directors (Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, who takes over after the film's obscene third act wheel-jerk) have certainly made more intelligent, well-rounded pictures, there's no denying From Dusk Till Dawn has a certain impossible charm that's unlike any of their solo joints. Tarantino's script elaborates loosely on many of the social observations he'd already made in Natural Born Killers, while the film's semi-serious, tongue-in-cheek attitude is an obvious precursor to the superduo's eventual collaborations on Grindhouse. This marks it as an evolutionary milestone of sorts for both men. George Clooney steals most every scene as a **** heistmeister who's desperate to cross the Mexican border, Harvey Keitel seems unusually understated as a jaded, softly-spoken preacher, and Tarantino himself breaks out his C-level acting chops in an appropriately stiff, detached performance as Clooney's creepy sexual predator brother. It wasn't quite the joyride I'd remembered it as, but it still provided several gigantic laughs and a couple barrels' worth of blood.
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Jul 29, 2019
Clooney and Tarantino patronizes the brotherhood with warmth which is a complete shock in contrast to this vampire bloodbath. From Dusk Till Dawn Rodriguez is searching for a crowd. And with this crowd pleasing pop culture commercial cinema, he may have found it with the help of a big production and even bigger cast. But all the likeable ingredients couldn't make me nod to any of their theories. First and foremost what I found most fascinating is how smart actually the concept and the structure of the script is. Quentin Tarantino's screenplay and Robert Rodriguez's direction are both going in the same direction, their eyes might be on different topics but they are at least in sync, unlike the previous experience of Tarantino with Tony Scott that I found a bit uneven. But this time I am to blame even Tarantino for it. For the structure of the script is incredibly promising and has enormous potential. The script is bafflingly smart. It starts with a crime scene that marks the territory and as it proceeds further and further, the madness multiplies and the boundaries are pushed periodically. Now, this is an engaging journey to go through. Jumping in one from one location to another, one genre to another and one tone of violence to another, but this is all shucked out of the window by the execution. What all Rodriguez had to do was acknowledge the current state, position, scenario that is explored in this wild ride. As soon as he accepts the presence of each character the film should electrify all those elements that were meant to shock the viewers. And it is not that he hasn't tried. With a hands-on camera work that gives a personal look from a character's perspective, he has made us look through their spects plenty of times. But From Dusk Till Dawn, none of the characters notify us physically or verbally of their inner emotions of the world they revolve around.
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Production Company
- Dimension Films
- A Band Apart
- Los Hooligans Productions
- Miramax
Release Date Jan 19, 1996
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating R
Tagline A terrifying evil has been unleashed. And five strangers are our only hope to stop it.
Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
