Amazon.com video review:
From a match made in heaven comes a movie spawned in hell!
Young hotshot director Robert Rodriquez (El Mariachi,
Desperado) teamed up with Pulp Fiction auteur Quentin
Tarantino (offering his services as writer and co-star) to make this
outrageous, no-holds-barred hybrid of high-octane crime and gruesome
horror. QT plays Richard Gecko, a borderline psychopath who breaks his
career-criminal brother, Seth (George Clooney), out of prison, after
which they rob a bank and leave a trail of dead and wounded in their
bloody wake. Then they hijack a mobile home driven by a former Baptist
minister (Harvey Keitel) who quit the church after his wife's death
and hit the road with his two children (played by Juliette Lewis and
Ernest Liu). Heading to Mexico with their hostages, the infamous
Gecko brothers arrive at the Titty Twister bar to rendezvous for a
money drop, but they don't realize that they've just entered the
nocturnal lair of a bloodthirsty gang of vampires! With not-so-subtle
aplomb, Rodriguez and Tarantino shift into high gear with a nonstop
parade of gore, gunfire, and pointy-fanged mayhem featuring Salma
Hayek as a snake-charming dancer whose bite is much worse than her
bark. If you're a fan of Tarantino's lyrical dialogue and pop-cultural
wit, you'll have fun with the road-movie half of this supernatural
horror-comedy, but if your taste runs more to exploding heads and
eyeballs, sloppy entrails and morphing monsters, the second half
provides a connoisseur's feast of gross-out excess. Bon
appétit! --Jeff Shannon
