"What, were they psychos?"; One of my favourites from RR/QT

Rating: Null/10 (28 July 2009)

A new Robert Rodriguez film will be hitting the theaters very soon, not really the long- awaited first sequel of one of the very best maybe just the very best comic book film ever made or the maybe-it-goes-straight-to-DVD-or-maybe-it-gets-a-theatrical-release Grindhouse presentation Machete (can't wait!) but a film more in the vein of his Spy Kids trilogy and his 2005 The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D. Now, I haven't seen any of those films however I do want to check out Shorts and hopefully I will be enjoying it on the big screen the day it opens (in my country Shorts will be released on 7 August 2009 and two weeks later from that Friday it will be in American theaters) but meanwhile I want to visit for the very first time some RR films, so maybe I will check out Spy Kids, well hell as for today I have yet to see plenty of RR films (the four I mentioned plus his two first ones, El Mariachi and the TV movie Roadracers, and The Faculty). This one, From Dusk Till Dawn, was before today in that list, well I had seen before some bits of its first part (and certainly the famous part of Salma Hayek) but just today I finally saw it in its entirety.
And From Dusk Till Dawn has two parts, Salma Hayek sort of marks the end of the first part, the part in which she kills Quentin Tarantino's character but not really literally, the only part in which Hayek is sexy and yes here Hayek stops being sexyyou don't believe me? Well, I can tell you, second part is carnage with only few moments for our characters to really think about what's going on, to really be sure about what they are dealing with. And is great, very memorable fun, with Tom Savini and Fred Williamson (as Sex Machine and Frost, respectively) joining our main characters, but wait I haven't say much about our main characters so:
Tarantino plays what is my favourite of his characters, I mean not my favourite of the characters he had written but just of the ones he has played. Tarantino, who also wrote the screenplay, plays Richard Gecko (by reading some other comments I can say most of the people hated Tarantino here, for me it's a lot of great fun with him), sex freak, crazy bastard, criminal and brother of George Clooney's (you can say whatever you want about Clooney but he is great in the Coen brothers masterpiece O Brother, Where Art Thou?, he is awesome here so) character Seth Gecko. Both had killed in a week 5 Texas rangers, 8 police officers and 3 civilians and while the authorities say they will caught the fugitives within the next 48 hours the Gecko brothers are on their way to Mexico. The introduction to the Gecko brothers is just superb, as a whole it's a really great opening, and certainly is clear who is who, who is the craziest son of a bitch, who will make things harder for himself and for his brother. Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis and Ernest Liu play the other main characters, the family Fuller, victims of the Gecko brothers, they did what they had to and they were going to leave Mexico to can tell later on their unfortunate encounter with the Gecko brothers but when the carnage is on"what, were they psychos?", Cheech Marin is also very memorable here!
Why I waited till now to see this film, this awesome film? Damn, but now I'm so glad I finally saw it, just loved each second of its two parts, it's awesome fun, underrated and one of favourites from RR/QT!