I rented all 3 "From Dusk Til Dawn" movies to get the overall story. I had, of course, seen the original and wanted to get into the sequels since I'd heard about them being made, but that's the last I'd heard about them. Well, my review of #3, "The Hangman's Daughter" can be found with that movie, and as for this...a TOTAL waste of film. TOTAL waste of actors who seem talented (although I've only seen Robert Patrick's and Cruz's other work really)but are stuck in this horrible movie. It's so bad I won't even get into the plot, but let's just say it happens some time after the first one, has a very weak tie to the first one (Micheal Parks' character's son), and is just bad from conception to execution. It looks as though it was made just to capitalize off the success of the first and was put together in a jumbled, hurried mess, something I would hope two great filmmakers like Rodriguez and Tarantino would be above and not shove shotty material down our throat...BUT THEY DID.
The only thing I can say good about this movie is the special and CG effects. But the first-person camera the director, Spiegel, utilizes WAY too much and it's annoying as hell anyway? Useless. If they thought of the concept for "Hangman's Daughter" first, they should've stopped there. If they thought of this first, I'm glad they got the bugs out here to make "Daughter" a far superior movie. Avoid this monstrosity at all costs.
The only thing I can say good about this movie is the special and CG effects. But the first-person camera the director, Spiegel, utilizes WAY too much and it's annoying as hell anyway? Useless. If they thought of the concept for "Hangman's Daughter" first, they should've stopped there. If they thought of this first, I'm glad they got the bugs out here to make "Daughter" a far superior movie. Avoid this monstrosity at all costs.