This straight-to-video sequel to the surprise cinema hit of '96 is a lot better than I had heard and expected. I think you already know whether you'll like this flick or not. Much cheaper, much cheesier, muchos muchos muchos. Oh, and don't expect anything like the first one, it's a totally different kettle of fish. If you like trashy B-movies, you'll like this. Fair enough, but sometimes people take movies too seriously. Alot of people are going to disagree though - the people i was watching this with, for example, all thought it sucked. Not as much fun as the Intruder (which is well worth getting if you're a Deadite fan, oh yeah) but still a good laugh a using loads of Spiegel's trade mark POV shots. Oh yeah - the film - well, it's good in a Scott Speigel kind of way.
#Movie from dusk till dawn 2 movie#
And, let's face it, that's how come Bruce Campbell's in this movie - they go way back. That's the kind of guy Scott Speigel is and I like him. Next day when Bruce arrived at the office he was stunned to find hundreds of girls lined up waiting to show Scott their boobs for the chance to get on the screen topless for maybe 2 or 3 seconds. Apparently it was all Scott's idea he steamrollered the idea past them when they weren't paying attention.
I watched Army of Darkness the other day, the bootleg edition, with the commentary on and was belly laughing when two topless slave girls wander on to the screen and Bruce recounts the story of how they got into the movie. If you've read the 'Evil Dead companion' or 'If Chins could kill' you'll know what kind of guy Scott Speigel is. It's no classic, but it's mildly amusing. Overall, I'd recommend it if you can catch it on the cheap. It's kinda fun the first twenty times, but after that. As for the Raimi-esque POV shots, a little goes a long way - something that Scott Spiegel should have learned from the master. It's stuff like this which suggests the writers didn't know quite what they were doing. Adding the solar eclipse does nothing here. Which is another pointless plot point - if you want vampires to be in the darkness, just keep them in darkness and have the sun come up normally. The ending is just one big shootout, prolonged by a convenient solar eclipse. There is no real climax - the vampire bad guys are subsequently interchangeable, and the only really competent one (Jesus) gets killed before the formerly-dimwitted one. The writers seemed to have run out of ideas, and so we just get interminable variations on these two basic ideas. Once we get the first guy bit by a vampire, it moves along to "vampires rob a bank" and "vampires shoot it out with police." But.that's really about it. Like the original, it tries to stay "reality" grounded as a caper flick, but given this is a shorter movie, this goes on _way_ too long before you actually get to vampires.
The problem is that that's really all there is, and there's not much running track. It takes a basic ideas (vampires robbing a bank) and goes with it and runs. Bartender Danny Trejo is the only returning cast member.I only caught the "edited" version on Sci-Fi Channel, but must admit that I found this to be a mildly entertaining film. Bruce Campbell and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen make cameos in the jokey opening sequence and Speigel and fellow director Kevin Smith briefly appear as vampire bait. Bo Hopkins costars as the police detective dogging Patrick's trail. Speigel, a buddy of Sam Raimi, tops both Tarantino and Rodriguez for sheer cinematic acrobatics, putting his camera in the most absurd places (even from inside the mouth of a vampire chomping down on a victim) and driving the film with adrenaline-charged overkill, but despite some clever scenes and a hilarious Psycho spoof, it turns into another aggressively trashy latex-mask and rubber-bat gorefest as cops and robbers team up against the fanged gang. A Mexican bank robbery helmed by drawling criminal Robert Patrick (Terminator 2) turns into a literal bloodbath when his crew are turned into hungry bloodsuckers. Tarantino takes a story credit on the first, a heist film coscripted and directed by Scott Speigel. The high-concept mix of southwestern criminals versus supernatural nasties proved too irresistible for either of the video-hound creators to allow it to remain dead (or undead, as the case may be), so they plotted and produced a pair of direct-to-video sequels. B-movie mavens turned A-list genre fiends Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino teamed up in 1996 to take vampire gothic south of the border into spaghetti Western territory for the gory cult film From Dusk Till Dawn.
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